{"id":22319,"date":"2013-12-27T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22319"},"modified":"2013-12-27T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:47:16","slug":"qotd-the-church-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/qotd-the-church-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Getting the PM to choose the right bishop is like a conjuror getting a member of the audience to choose a card. With the Church of England the choice is usually between a knave and a queen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bench of bishops should have a proper balance between those who believe in God and those who don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bishops tend to live a long time, perhaps because the Almighty is not all that keen for them to join him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plans for a new church in South London had places for dispensing orange juice, family planning, and organizing demos, but nowhere to celebrate Holy Communion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Theology is a device for helping agnostics to stay within the Church of England.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Queen is inseparable from the Church of England. God is an optional extra.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Lynn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanlynn.com\/tv\/yes_minister_series\/yes_minister_episode_quotes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Yes Minister Series: Quotes from the dialogue&#8221;, <em>JonathanLynn.com<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Getting the PM to choose the right bishop is like a conjuror getting a member of the audience to choose a card. With the Church of England the choice is usually between a knave and a queen.&#8221; &#8220;The bench of bishops should have a proper balance between those who believe in God and those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,41,11],"tags":[360,570,396],"class_list":["post-22319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-england","tag-monarchy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5NZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22320,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319\/revisions\/22320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}