Backing Out Of The Church Slowly And Avoiding Eye Contact

For a while now, I’ve had a hunch that the Church of England is trying to back out of the deal.

I’ve mentioned before that there’s an almost resigned air of defeat to their communications. (Specifically in Organising Atheists...) It’s like they know the jig is up, and just want to leave quietly so that not too many people are embarrassed.

I have divined their plan to achieve this quiet withdrawal.

Smurfy sent me an email with the title, “Is the Archbishop of Canterbury secretly one of us?” At first I was confused. I was expecting to see a picture of the Bishop painted blue. It would make sense, he’s already got a pointy hat. But when I read this article God Will Not Give Happy Ending I realised Smurf meant atheist.

If you don't read the article, here’s the summation. The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that God can’t help us with our environmental troubles. What is He willing to help with?

So far they’ve said that; He doesn’t intercede on a trivial personal level of folly or sin. He doesn’t intercede on man-made acts of evil and now He won’t do anything about the planet. According to the Church of England, all we can count on, even in the worst disaster, is His love. Great. Stick that in your survival kit and send a flare up with it.

See what they’re doing? See? They’re incrementally removing the advertised features from the product until there’s nothing left to sell. It’s a recall by attrition.

The greatest trick that God ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn’t exist – gradually.