No. I don't make it up. The church doesn't need me to. It gets on just fine on its own.

Its claim of how many Christians there are in this country is so far out compared to the number of people who would describe themselves as such. ..

ONS point it out far better than I ever could.

The RCN surveyed their members a few years ago and where "religion" was entered, most nurses used to put CofE where a patient didn't say otherwise. ONS quote this as one example of many where counting Christians is concerned.

I wouldn't get so wound up about it but such numbers are loudly displayed whenever disestablishment is debated. Also, the rather repugnant but legislatively accurate "Christian country" tosh.

We are a multicultural country yet one cult, with less than 1% of the population being active, insist on keeping laws based on their particular superstition. Their exclusively male leaders are allowed to sit in the upper house.

21st century anyone?

If they weren't embedded in law, rational people wouldn't have to criticise so much. Laws concerning equality wouldn't have to give them clauses to let them discriminate against women or have the freedom to call a lifestyle unnatural.

After all, if we question their persecution we are classed as persecuting them.

It wouldn't take much to allow Christians to get on with their hobby. Just cast their statutory influence out and the rest of us can get on with our lives without superstition being an influence on law.