Publics around the world are generally misinformed: www.ipsos.com/en/perils/pe...

Where’s Holy Trinity Brompton is this equation?

Yes, I am thinking of the biographies I have read of figures such as Robert Graves who epitomised that culture of deep knowledge and ambivalence.

I can’t help thinking this ontological understanding of Christianity belonged to the elite being prepared for roles in the Empire or the clergy. My experience of in my religious family in the Valleys was a hotchpotch of Biblical teachings, folklore and superstition.

Incidentally, this is good on the claims about church revival. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

From my experience the young people aren’t interested in being installed and parents are cosplaying religion to get their kids into more selective or just relatively successful schools.

I can’t square this with the fact that 30% of schools are faith schools. Even in non faith schools many children study RE at some point (or something similar), religious style ‘thought for day’ was compulsory, assemblies are usually about religiously inspired shared values or a secular equivalent.

He must be useful to someone somewhere - a stick to beat someone with? What purpose does he serve?

Why is anyone listening to him? Why does such ignorance represent a contribution to public discourse?

Yes, he’s so far gone that he flew in for the Heterodox Academy conference.

They should be supplied with Meta AI glasses that when they leave their house shows them the world rendered to look like one of those old timey videos that reactionaries love to share.