Fear Not Them Which Kill the Body

Some believers in the supernatural have written a squealy letter to the Government about its lack of scientific rigour: the Cummings administration has declared teachers and children expendable, and faith leaders are morally indignant at their dupes being legally barred from a similar chance of martyrdom. One Church of England bishop with a secure income and a warm house blithely shrugged off the minor sacrifices made by those employed in less significant industries than thoughts and prayers: "The church is not a branch of the leisure or hospitality industries with a tap that can be turned on and off by politicians at will," he huffed, before the inevitable blather about Magna Carta and "the essence of our common life" as manifested in public god-bothering. Apparently the Saviour's explicit recommendation that prayer be silent and solitary has been overruled by better men; presumably because where only two or three are gathered in His name, His presence pays no tithes.