It's just a guess, but I reckon than there are more people who are scared of the dark than there are who go to church on Sunday, Do you think that if I set myself up as the general secretary of the Dark-Fearing Society I should be eligible for the Lords? After all, fear of the dark is a damn sight more rational that belief in a deity (just think of all those nocturnal big cats), and there are almost certainly more of us...

Let's face it. You think it's OK for bishops to have a say in our governance just because they're bishops. I think that bishops have made a career for themselves, with great salaries and house and staff provided, on the back of a delusion. I don't care how sage they appear or how dignified you think they look in their silly ceremonial attire, or even whether they have degrees in something non-religious. There are millions of better, more rational, candidates for the Lords. And none of them are careerist trade union officials, I might add.