But it was not just the process that concerned them -- The Alliance believe that introducing such services would "be part of a schismatic move which departs from the teaching received and upheld not only by the vast majority of the Anglican Communion (representing around 75% of the Anglican Communion's 80 million members), the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches but also the vast majority of other churches around the world".

And it has been damaging - it has been performative - the illusion of militancy which has been an expensive distraction from the hard yards, financial planning and time needed to develop an actual workable strategy and to earn extensive buy in to it. What is more, the credibility of the orthodox as genuinely capable of proportionate militant action has been repeatedly undermined by what has been little more than tub thumping.

It is also beow the 747,000 people the Church of England predicted would have attended weekly services in 2023 if there had been no pandemic.

However, the data suggests that while in 2021 all-age Sunday attendance was 22.3% below the projected pre-pandemic trend, by last year, the gap had narrowed to 6.7%

The statistics are based on a snapshot of data returned from over 11,000 churches.

But is the Church up to task? Well, not really. Although the C of E does have an internal democracy of a kind, the decisions on appointments of senior positions such as bishops are reserved for technocrats rather than the laity and the clergy. The result, unsurprisingly, is that the vested interests of the State and the elites within the Church tend to lead to appointments in their own image.