National Review writer calls for England to drop its connection with Christianity

To set the stage, let’s start with a couple of Andrew Stuttaford’s past atheist gems, brought to us by the “conservatives” of National Review:

Contrary to what these “philosophers” would have us believe, it’s all very easy. Why are we here? Chance. Where will we end up? Dust.
—Stuttaford, National Review Online, May 23, 2003

[W]hy humanity has to have a “purpose” escapes me. We just are. As for human dignity being grounded “in transcendent truth,” well, lets say that I feel a sneeze coming on.
—Stuttaford, quoted at VFR, “Sneering at the Transcendent,” March 20, 2008

Today, in response to Iain Murray’s comment about Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s ongoing problems with the Anglican Communion, which have been recently exacerbated by such Williams remarks as that Britain should institutionalize sharia and that the Christian Trinity offends Muslims, Stuttaford argues that the Church of England exists simply as a national institution, has not much religious purpose, and should divorce from those stupid worldwide Anglicans who actually believe in Christianity.

You would think that a venerable institution that gives such an individual a prominent platform to address the world under its imprimatur is headed straight for extinction.

No. I’m not taking about Rowan Williams and the Church of England; I’m talking about Andrew Stuttaford and National Review.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 17, 2008 11:52 AM | Send