Anglican Bishop: Bah, Humbug

The Bishop of Croydon (UK), the Right Reverend Nick Baines, says that Christmas carols are "nonsense."

Doesn't it seem more and more these days that the Anglican clergy is really rather embarassed by all of this religious stuff that they're forced to endure, and that they'd really rather be viewed as a sort of liberal political organization or debating society? The clergy and hierarchy seem to take great satisfaction in ridiculing the religious impulses of their flocks, especially the belief in miracles and the more fantastic stories told of Jesus and the Saints, as if they want to paradoxically be seen as rationalist religionists.