I AM no longer Christian, but almost wept when I saw what the so-called ‘Church of England’ has done to Canterbury Cathedral to celebrate the appointment of a female archbishop. When I spent three years at the local university during the mid-1990s, I would visit the cathedral each lunchtime and often took my children there to show them the incredible architecture and the very spot where Thomas Beckett had been slain by four of Henry II’s knights. For a short period, I even worked in the cathedral archives as part of a course I was taking on medieval monasticism and was able to handle the old manuscripts and observe traditional methods of leather book-binding.

This modern excuse for an established ‘church’ has been following a self-destructive trajectory for many years and even the sixteenth-century Reformers who confiscated the cathedral from Catholic Rome stripped the building of its art and damaged many of the large stone pillars when Thomas Cromwell’s thugs rode down the aisle on horseback, swinging metal balls on chains.

During the 1970s, the ‘Church of England’ even financed various Marxist organisations around the world in line with the policies enforced by the ecumenical World Council of Churches (WCC). Since then, it has been infiltrated by tens of thousands of homosexual activists who are now administering the coup de grâce. I have no sympathy for the false institution that was established 400 years ago by the murderer and dictator, Henry VIII, but the wanton destruction of our heritage is inexcusable.