The Archbishop of York has said that the Church of England is one generation away from extinction. His solution was more evangelism, more God. He is completely wrong.
The solution is for the church, as in the past, to move with the times and now drop the outmoded belief in God and a conditional afterlife, but keep the moral and ethical thrust of its founder, as well as of other good people of philosophy and science both earlier and later.
Yes and this brilliant idea, also mooted here in the UK by A. N. Wilson in the Daily Telegraph, will give us, let’s see, all the clout, soaring membership, strength and vigour of the Unitarians who are already offering religion without God. What’s that you say? That the Unitarians went into a tail spin in the late 19th C when they dropped more and more doctrine and have never recovered and are now a marginal force in religion? Well, who would have thought that!
Exactly, Fr Tee. A sure recipe for extinction, because people like “Chris Beney” will earnestly approve a church that does not challenge them, but they do not contribute either time or money to keep it going.