Buck up, Bishop, say Facebook comments
Unsurprising reactions on Facebook to the Bishop of St Germans the Rt Rev Hugh Nelson's recent address at the Truro Diocesan Synod. The Bishop laments the decline of church going. Click here to read the piece with its oddly defeatist tone. The three comments below a just a sample of the response. Bishop Hugh laments the decline in church going. We’re all aware of the consequences of changes in patterns of belief in this country. We see it in our church pews, in the numbers of children in our churches and in our PCC bank balances. But I think those are the symptoms, not the cause. The real change isn’t that people still believe the same things they used to believe but have stopped going to church because shopping is more fun. The real change is that people believe different things now. it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed And it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed - that people have worked their way through the Creed and