Minorities prop up church-going

From the BBC:


CHURCH ATTENDANCE
6.3% of people go to church
7.5% attended regularly in 1998
29% of churchgoers are aged over 65
17% are of ethnic minority background
(8% of general UK population are ethnic minorities)
44% of London churchgoers are black
Source: Christian Research

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5349132.stm

On Feb 15, 6:14*pm, (Sn!pe) wrote:
Ronald Tompkins crossposted to ul, urc, urs:

From the BBC:

CHURCH ATTENDANCE
6.3% of people go to church
7.5% attended regularly in 1998
29% of churchgoers are aged over 65
17% are of ethnic minority background
(8% of general UK population are ethnic minorities)
44% of London churchgoers are black
Source: Christian Research

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5349132.stm

The shed is a far, far better place for having been told that.

[fu set]

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My pet rock Gordon just rolled his eyes.

Following on from Warsi's ' Militant Secularism claim:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17021831

......it is relevant.

And Ye Shedde appears to be a broad church.

Oh that reminds me! Back in the early 90s, I knew a defrocked priest
who started a church in his garden shed! Honest! He had at least three
in his congregation. He was High Church with all the vestments, an
altar, incense and everything! Now that lad should be here. It's time
we had a Revd Sheddi to keep all you heathens in place.

Tone

There is another thing I've noticed as well. A lot of the volunteers working
in charities are from local churches, and a lot of my friends who are blind
seem to have 'got religion's and go to church. Bit worrying really. Myself?
I think that religion is out of date as such. it fulfils several needs.
the original need, ie control of an uneducated population by fear of divine
retribution is largely dissipated these days, but many do look for a reason
for their lives and why they are the way they are, and also value the social
contact that its often hard to find in any other way.
Brian

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"Ronald Tompkins" wrote in message
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From the BBC:


CHURCH ATTENDANCE
6.3% of people go to church
7.5% attended regularly in 1998
29% of churchgoers are aged over 65
17% are of ethnic minority background
(8% of general UK population are ethnic minorities)
44% of London churchgoers are black
Source: Christian Research

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5349132.stm

Well its one of those amazing little gems you can bore the pants off people
with at the pub.
grin. I have at least avoided the obvious racial undertone in the post and
added something new in my reply.
Brian

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"Sn!pe" wrote in message
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Ronald Tompkins crossposted to ul, urc, urs:

From the BBC:


CHURCH ATTENDANCE
6.3% of people go to church
7.5% attended regularly in 1998
29% of churchgoers are aged over 65
17% are of ethnic minority background
(8% of general UK population are ethnic minorities)
44% of London churchgoers are black
Source: Christian Research

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5349132.stm

The shed is a far, far better place for having been told that.

[fu set]

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My pet rock Gordon just rolled his eyes.

On 15/02/2012 18:30, Tony Haynes wrote:
....
Oh that reminds me! Back in the early 90s, I knew a defrocked priest
who started a church in his garden shed! Honest! He had at least three
in his congregation. ...

Two more than attended communion in a church I was visiting yesterday.
My visit was to look at the 16th century wall paintings and just after
communion, so I don't count.

Colin Bignell

On Feb 16, 5:02*am, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
There is another thing I've noticed as well. A lot of the volunteers working
in charities are from local churches, and a lot of my friends who are blind
seem to have 'got religion's and go to church. Bit worrying really. Myself?
I think that *religion is out of date as such. it fulfils several *needs.
the original need, ie control of an uneducated population by fear of divine
retribution is largely dissipated these days, but many do *look for a reason
for their lives and why they are the way they are, and also value the social
contact that its often hard to find in any other way.
*Brian


Or could it be that without sight they are less distracted from their
reality and more likeley to find the divine within? As an experienced
blind person perhaps you could shed light on this theory, Brian?

I agree with what you say regarding religion, though, but not faith.

(I posted on this thread previously in a whimsical way about an RC
priest in St Albans who had an affair and was defrocked. He then
started his own church in his garden shed, complete with alter,
vestments, incense, wine and wafers*. He had about three in his
congregation. A true Sheddi in fact. But the post got googlified
somewhere. It'll probably turn up in about a month's time after it's
bounced around the universe for a while.)

* "I can't believe this is not the body of Christ". It's not. It's a
wafer.

Tone

In article
s.com, Tony Haynes on Thu, 16 Feb 2012
at 03:31:50 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
(I posted on this thread previously in a whimsical way about an RC
priest in St Albans who had an affair and was defrocked. He then
started his own church in his garden shed, complete with alter,
vestments, incense, wine and wafers*. He had about three in his
congregation. A true Sheddi in fact. But the post got googlified
somewhere. It'll probably turn up in about a month's time after it's
bounced around the universe for a while.)

* "I can't believe this is not the body of Christ". It's not. It's a
wafer.


I do believe that there is no 'F' in God. Repeat after me 'I do believe
there is no 'F' in God.'

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Nicholas David Richards -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"