FS may well know more about this than me because I got it second-hand, but the Anglican church (in England) not long ago fired a priest for not believing in God.
This is, in my opinion and as a lifelong claimant to Anglican membership, grossly unsporting.
As Max says, the Church has never even demanded adherence to its own core beliefs and has been, obviously now in the past, famously tolerant of any hair-brained schism, reformation or devolution, and crackpot creed, belief system or lifestyle which comes along.
This made it so different to any other Christian sect and most other religions in the world that it has always had my support. I like the idea of a religion which doesn't insist on total conformity to one particular -ism and its associated rituals. That leads to religious wars, mutual loathing between neighbours and inquisitions ending with little days out in the plaza for an auto-da-fe or its local fun-filled equivalent.
I believe this is why FS puts up with us all!
