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Posted by Rail Blue on Mon Aug 27 13:04:55 2007, in response to Re: nonsense about atheism, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Aug 27 12:53:18 2007. The whole concept of a state religion, even one where participation is not mandatory for the population, is bad.I agree in as much as, if we were starting again with an English constitution, I would oppose its inclusion. But that's not how England works -- we only get horrendously time-consuming piecemeal legislation (and that has pros as well as cons). Any religious bill is going to take even more time, as it would be treated as a matter of conscience, so it wouldn't be possible to expedite it through Parliament in any way at all. So we get to its importance: with the CofE already essentially irrelevant, its disestablishment is of virtually no importance to the state. Parliament has better things to do than wasting its time on highly time-consuming bills of little importance -- in practice, it usually can't even adequately deal with the government's manifesto commitments. |
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