I could keep this up for hours...

Who, other than a vicar can sound convincing when speaking in the language of James I? It's the nostalgia for most of us. School head teachers thinking they are in a pulpit each morning in assembly. I said above that I enjoyed tradition and you get a church, get a real one. Otherwise it would be like I assume visiting a prostitute would be. You get the sex but lose the experience.

Michael seems to have had a rest and has come back with an interesting point. A church near us ripped the pews out recently and the anguish, threats even and debate around it... The pews were unsafe, (two had collapsed in as many weeks due to pie smugglers sitting on them) and they just had to go. Now, the church is Elizabethan, been left foot, right foot, high, low and everywhere you go. But the pews were put in in 1889. I too prefer to say neo gothic to gothic as applicable.

In short, no. I doubt someone dressed up as a vicar would be as good as the real thing. But that's my view. Others have theirs. Although Keith from La La Land raises an interesting point, inadvertently, when he mentioned that he picks and chooses what to believe. Most vicars have to keep the faithful happy, but I am sure that once you get a job, your outlook changes over the years and perhaps some people get a vicar who is as doubtful of their faith as a humanist bloke in a silly gown?