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Sidelining the Ten Commandments
Says one British newspaper: "The Ten Commandments have been sidelined by the Church of England . . . in a controversial attempt to make services less 'sombre' and more populist. The move has prompted a storm of protest from (conservative) clergy who accuse the bishops of finally surrendering any claim to moral leadership in Britain" (emphasis added).
Earlier this year new statistics were published that revealed that the Anglicans had suffered their biggest drop in attendance in more than 20 years. Outraged synod member Phil Gore commented that "many in the Church do not want a God that makes too many demands on them. Therefore they want to dismiss the Ten Commandments as irrelevant to our modern age."
A similar protest was voiced by David Wilkinson, a lay member from Derby. "The secular world is crying out for the Ten Commandments. Relativism in ethics has taken such a hold on society that fewer and fewer people have a clear idea of the difference between right and wrong."
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