Church of England to split

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P-BBC article

Four senior Anglican bishops have split away from the Church of England to form a rival organisation.

The new "Church of ye olde England" aims to "break the mould of religious organisation", according to co-founder and leader Bishop Nazir-Ali.

Nazir-Ali cited differences over the consecration of female bishops and gay marriage, saying he hoped the Church of ye olde England would have a wider appeal than the old Anglican church, attracting conservative Catholics and evangelicals as well as Anglicans.

The experiment is widely expected to fail, allowing atheists to portray the religious as disunited egotists for ten years, after which any attempt by the Anglican church to claim the centre ground of UK religious life will be spun as a vindication of the splitters' move.

Speculation is mounting that the new group will merge with the Mormons and produce an annual newsletter just before Easter showing themselves kneeling at various UK locations with the claim they are "praying hard all year round".

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The Provisional BBC wouldn't lie to us!

Quite right. I get all of my news from the Provisional BBC.

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     ^After reading that, I figured that it was probably fake.

No, there is actually a Bishop called Nazir-Ali (full name: Michael Nazi-Ali). Bishop of Rochester. And a prick if thee ask me.

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P.S.  Most of this article sounds like a joke.

Um, Chris...

Yeah, alright... now I just feel like a jackass.

Well...don't feel too bad...the original source article lacked joke.

Actually it did but you didn't get it

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I got it. And it still wasn't funny.

If I thought it was especially funny in its own right I wouldn't have posted it here in the way that I did