Wonderful …

… Interview with Peter Hitchens - English Churchman. (Har tip, Dave Lull.)

The closure of all churches during the first state-sponsored strangulation of our society was worse than a crime. It was a mistake. If the leaders of the Church don’t think proper regular public worship, in consecrated buildings, is absolutely necessary, then why should anyone else do so?  The continued closure of many churches, needlessly, in the recent period, underline this. If we truly believe in eternal life, then we should not submit so easily to secular decrees. If we believe in the love of God, we might do well not to fall in so easily with policies based largely upon fear.  I suspect that like other worldly persons, the C o E’;s leaders will eventually use the economic damage from strangulation as a pretext for closing things that ought to stay open.

 Which is why I sent my archbishop a clip of Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves telling his scribe to cut the rations to the lepers and cancel Christmas. Too bad some of these guys have greater faith in the media and our loathsome political class than they do in God.