No, the Church of England is not ‘indoctrinating’ kids
by Patrick West, spiked:
It’s the woke, not parish priests, who are brainwashing today’s youngsters.
This week, Professor Alice Roberts, vice president of Humanists UK, launched an attack on the Church of England. ‘We really don’t need more faith schools in this country. I wish the government would prioritise inclusive schools, rather than using taxpayer’s money to fund the Church of England’s indoctrination programme’, she said on Tuesday.
Oh yes, of course. That infamous, much-feared ‘Church of England indoctrination programme’. Most of us tremble in fear at its mere mention! Possessed with bleak and forbidding moral self-regard, this fanatical church has been raining down brimstone on unbelievers and the impious for decades. The hate-preachers of Anglican jihad punish with unremitting ferocity anyone who defiles the Book of Common Prayer. CofE fundamentalists have been unrelenting in their denunciation of Catholics, dissenters, Jews and all people who refuse to bake cakes, hold jumble sales or sing ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’…
Clearly, Professor Roberts’s condemnation of the Church of England is absurd on a number of levels. Anglican indoctrination doesn’t exist in any meaningful sense today. The stereotype of the placid or borderline-agnostic Anglican priest is based in much truth. Today, rather than concentrating their efforts on indoctrination in schools and society at large, most Anglicans seem keener to apologise for existing in the first place. The Church of England is so inoffensive that even arch-atheist Richard Dawkins has spoken of the beauty of its services.
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