Father Steele, over at De Cura Animarum writes the following about an initiative to disestablish the Church of England: Disestablishment And The Mark Of The Beast.Antidisestablishmentarianism, the longest non-medical/technical term in the dictionary, is one of those words you just have to jump on using when appropriate. Thank you Father Steele!
Personally, I am a disestablishmentarianist. I think that I have some decent reasons for that. Maybe you agree. I mention them in the the combox.
Stop over and weigh in. Are you, by inclination or conviction, an antidisestablishmentarianist or a disestablishmentarianist?
David Bennett
Jennifer
asimplesinner
Fr. J.
Chad Toney
Jorge Flores
Jonathan B
carmelbennett
nicenehobbit
Jason S
jaybird68
papaz
January 25, 2008 at 1:30 am
I am kind of in between so I will have to pick “option C”, I think what Scotland has is the best, that is the chruch of Scotland is a “national church”, which means it is officially recognized by parliment but completely independent from the state on spiritual matters and clerical leadership.
It is good for governments to acknowledge Christianity to be the truth (and even better if they recognize Catholic Christianity) but history both past in France and present with the Anglican Chruch has shown government control of the Church usually has very very bad results.