[Sephiroth]

The Church of England (or any church for that matter) is a huge irrelevance to life on Earth. All this was easily proved by Welby's performance, underlined by the scandals that have surfaced in recent years.

All the faiths purport to worship the same god - yet they are or recently have been at each other's throats.

Maybe there was a god who designed & implemented everything, complete with an evolution mode - but that god is long dead based on the lack of evidence for there being an active god.

So, we have these massive institutions, like the CoE and the Catholic Church, which, to my mind are massive wealth-amassing enterprises that benefit nobody to any serious extent.

But Easter & Chrimbo are now family events for most people, only a few treat them as religiously significant in the church sense.

Putting the fear of god into people was an old political trick to bring the tribes into line (I'm severely glossing here) - but Genesis is a substantially political document. I've got the Interpreter's One Volume Commentary on the Bible - a 1000 page learned work to guide me in my analysis and thoughts.

The churches have built on the 'fear of god' notion, wrapping it in all sorts of qualification such as 'god's wisdom', 'god's mercy', 'god's son', non of which can be evidenced.

And, in the UK, to make matters worse, we have had Welby and Charlie Farley, the adulterer who formally heads the CoE. I do hope that William hasn't fallen for this nonsense.