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Please consider subscribing to my Substack. https://drgavinashenden.substack.com/ I want to explore the difference between profanity and blasphemy. And I’m going to be quite critical of the Church of England. Can I explain myself as I begin? This is done more in sorrow than in anger. And God have mercy on me, a sinner. Indeed, it’s very hard to know what the Church of England is. It is an amalgamation of different spiritual groups and forces. It always was. It’s a state creation essentially to keep the state from civil war. It’s a combination of different spiritualities, different theologies. But what it has become is so problematic that it is engaged in either blasphemy, depending on how deliberate it is, or profanity: taking the things that are holy and using them with a degree of casual irreverence. Let me just go to St. Paul to root this in scripture for a moment: For people will become lovers of self, lovers of money. Money is partly behind what we’re going to talk about. We’re going to look at York Minster and remember that the Church Commissioners have ten billion pounds or so available, much of it Catholic money taken at the Reformation. People will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people. It’s this phrase — having the appearance of godliness but denying its power.

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