Government Wants UK Churches to be Post Offices, CofE says, 'Good idea'

The Government are wondering whether the urban and rural havoc caused by post office closures around the country could be solved by the Church of England, which, unable to preach the Gospel of Christ, due to its irrational inability to adhere to any doctrine that might cause upset or offense to the sensibilities of the Government or anyone in particular, says, 'Splendid idea!'

According to the Telegraph, 'The Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, insisted that churches that take on new roles for the wider community will remain primarily places of worship.

He went on: "This is an example of a growing trend to return church buildings to their original function as places of worship and also places of assembly and celebration for the whole of the local community.

"This ancient tradition has in more recent times been overlaid by a distaste for mixing the sacred and the secular but this dichotomy is increasingly being challenged."'

Indeed, Rt Rev Richard Chartres is correct, this dichotomy is increasingly being challenged. The problem is as soon as the CofE is challenged by an aggressively atheistic Government that clearly seeks in its policy to undermine faith in the UK, it rolls over like a cat, and purrs with enthusiasm while the Government strokes and massages it near to death.

If, if, the Government come with this policy proposal to the Catholic Church in England and Wales, the Church should politely send the idea back to the Government as unsolicited mail and write 'return to sender' on the back, preferably with a drawing of a middle finger extended towards the original sender. But then, it might depend which Bishop gets the request...

Rt Rev Richard Chartres. The reason that the sacred and the secular dichotomy should continue to exist is that the Church should be a place where people worship God, not a place where you go to pick up a parcel that was too big for the letterbox. What would Christ, who overturned the tables of the market traders in the Synagogue say...perhaps, "My Father's House is a House of Prayer! You've gone and turned it into a post office!"