Friday, February 01, 2013

I'm speechless I say! Wait, What?

A 2011 Census shows that Maerdy, Rhondda is one of the least Religious places in England & Wales. I sympathise - if I lived there I'd struggle to reconcile it with an all knowing super being.

The same place held a sit in at the local church when it was threatened with closure. It then shut. One can only imagine what damage to your religious psyche your local church closing does, I can only imagine it from the point of view of an alcoholic if odd bins went to the wall.

Maybe if they'd have held a pray in rather than just a sit in then maybe God would have interevened.

The only reason I mention this at all is a great line, intentional or not I have no idea, in a BBC online article regarding the Census findings;

Peter Blake, who was a member of Friends of All Saints Church in Maerdy and a one-time church warden, said the figures left him "speechless".
It truly is a miracle.