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One of the Provisional Archbishops of Canterbury, Dr Lionel Marmaduke Lilliwhyte, has spoken out strongly against the employment of members of so-called "new religions" in government. The other Provisional Archbishop, the Reverend Jebediah Icke, has not commented so far. It is unclear whether Dr Lilliwhyte's comments were meant to include the evangelical wing of the Anglican church as a "new religion".
Dr Lilliwhyte's comments, which were made to mild approval at the Feast of Medius Caldus in the liberal half of Westminster Abbey, came as two junior ministers were forced to resign from their posts because of their religious convictions. Dora Bugge had to leave the Department of the Environment because her belief that the world will end on 1 January next year meant that she did no work during the seven months of her tenure; and Aloysius Gumbone of the Department of Education and Work Preparedness suffered a "crisis of conscience" over the teaching of the "sex play" Romeo and Juliet to adolescents and had to be taken away in a van with very small windows.
The question of minority religions has come up recently in the USA, where several of the Commander in Chief's closest advisers belong to various cults whose memberships vary between a few dozen and several million. Mrs Verna Zeeble, one of his 482 national security counsellors, is a member of Good Ship Lollipop, which believes that benevolent aliens will evacuate the faithful "in the nick of time" and whose members once released sarin gas into the New York underground system. Senator Mongo Dumbelmeyer, one of the Commander in Chief's most faithful allies, is an adherent of the white supremacist group God's Legitimate Offspring. And Mr Quentin Feetch, the national secretary for bowling, is one of millions of Americans who attach theological significance to US political events in the twentieth century.
"We believe, quite simply, that John F Kennedy is the second incarnation of Jesus, who was crucified by His enemies, and that Richard Nixon is the Antichrist," Mr Feetch recently told Fox News On Sunday. Asked how many Americans shared his beliefs, he said, "Most of those born between 1940 and 1980, I think." Sociological surveys have tended to confirm this view.
The Prime Minister, who belongs to both wings of the Anglican Church, in accordance with the Revised Establishment Act, has said that Britain remains a free country with regard to religious worship "so long as goats aren't being slaughtered in the streets".
We regret that we cannot be held responsible if the future turns out differently due to inaccuracies in the present
One of the Provisional Archbishops of Canterbury, Dr Lionel Marmaduke Lilliwhyte, has spoken out strongly against the employment of members of so-called "new religions" in government. The other Provisional Archbishop, the Reverend Jebediah Icke, has not commented so far. It is unclear whether Dr Lilliwhyte's comments were meant to include the evangelical wing of the Anglican church as a "new religion".
Dr Lilliwhyte's comments, which were made to mild approval at the Feast of Medius Caldus in the liberal half of Westminster Abbey, came as two junior ministers were forced to resign from their posts because of their religious convictions. Dora Bugge had to leave the Department of the Environment because her belief that the world will end on 1 January next year meant that she did no work during the seven months of her tenure; and Aloysius Gumbone of the Department of Education and Work Preparedness suffered a "crisis of conscience" over the teaching of the "sex play" Romeo and Juliet to adolescents and had to be taken away in a van with very small windows.
The question of minority religions has come up recently in the USA, where several of the Commander in Chief's closest advisers belong to various cults whose memberships vary between a few dozen and several million. Mrs Verna Zeeble, one of his 482 national security counsellors, is a member of Good Ship Lollipop, which believes that benevolent aliens will evacuate the faithful "in the nick of time" and whose members once released sarin gas into the New York underground system. Senator Mongo Dumbelmeyer, one of the Commander in Chief's most faithful allies, is an adherent of the white supremacist group God's Legitimate Offspring. And Mr Quentin Feetch, the national secretary for bowling, is one of millions of Americans who attach theological significance to US political events in the twentieth century.
"We believe, quite simply, that John F Kennedy is the second incarnation of Jesus, who was crucified by His enemies, and that Richard Nixon is the Antichrist," Mr Feetch recently told Fox News On Sunday. Asked how many Americans shared his beliefs, he said, "Most of those born between 1940 and 1980, I think." Sociological surveys have tended to confirm this view.
The Prime Minister, who belongs to both wings of the Anglican Church, in accordance with the Revised Establishment Act, has said that Britain remains a free country with regard to religious worship "so long as goats aren't being slaughtered in the streets".
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