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Thread ID: 118598	2011-06-13 03:19:00	Another Chch shake :(	Bozo (8540)	PC World Chat

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1208830	2011-06-20 00:09:00	Hmmm, not sure I would agree with 'the majority would be Anglicans'. Possibly there are quite a number of people who are nominally Anglicans (whether they constitute a majority I would not know), but congregations in Anglican churches are dwindling to small groups of mostly elderly people in each parish; churches are being abandoned or parishes/churches are being combined; churches or vicarages are being leased out or made available for community activities; and bequests to the Anglican Church (traditionally a major source of Anglican church income) are greatly reduced, so the Church is always struggling to make ends meet. You may find there are more happy clappers now than Anglicans, except possibly amongst my old fart generation. At any event, it appears as though they may still have some political influence, but I wonder whether they are any longer the majority, or even the core of the ChCh/Canty community except in an historical sense. John, I stand to be corrected on this one !. Wife and I went out for fast food last evening and there were only 4 of us whities out of about 12 in total, so run that across ChCh. where there are all different nationalities and it does not look so hot. Another cross check would be the memorial service held, over 100,000 out of 380,000 in the region, that's about 26% religious types of some sort. Lurking.	Lurking (218)
1208831	2011-06-20 01:29:00	Hehehe! Might not have been representative of ChCh as a whole, Lurking! But that is what I mean. Some of the most recent incomers (e.g. Koreans) are very much involved with Christian churches, so don't count them out of the Christian faith; but there are quite a few Korean, Samoan, Tongan etc churches so maybe it is only a minority of the latest incomers that would call themselves Anglican. I just know from a colleague who worked for quite a few years for the Anglican Church that congregation numbers have plummeted and the church has been struggling as far as funds are concerned. I hate to keep disagreeing with you Lurking, but again I am not sure that you can draw those conclusions from attendance at the Memorial Service. You have to ask how many of the people there attended so they could be part of a memorial process and community healing, rather than for 'religious' reasons? I go to funerals (as I get older they come along in greater numbers...) but I don't sing along with the hymns, and what I do when the prayers are happening is non-religious - I switch off and think about the person who has died, and what they meant to me. I go to mourn, celebrate, support the family and friends left behind, to catch up with mates and rellies etc. I just put up with the religious bits. Fortunately lots of funerals these days are secular rather than religious. Maybe a lot of the 100,000 are like me? Now there is a scary thought...	John H (8)
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