Breaking the Church / State link

JEB  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Jun 2014
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Breaking the Church / State link

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Given the rise of secular ideas, should the Church of England be disestablished?

David Cameron looks upon Britain as a ‘Christian country.’

His comments came in an article for the Church Times in April. It caused a furore in the press with a collection of 55 anti-religious intellectuals firing off a furious letter to the Daily Telegraph. And atheist and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg would evidently agree with them. He does not want Britain to be seen as a Christian country – at least not in the historic sense. On an LBC radio phone-in following the PM’s comments he said that he would like to see the disestab-lishment of the Church of England.

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