Wiping churches off Britain’s Ordnance Survey maps would be an act of cultural and topographical vandalism

so says yesterdays times. This is yet another indication to join Tony Blair being told by his cronies not to say ‘God Bless’ at the end of his talk to the nation that we are probably the most godless nation on earth. Well Christianity is dead long live Christianity. We have been here before as a nation, and each time the old faith bounces back (often in slightly new guise). Watch out for the bounce back- the alpha course is part of it. Some states in the US have more than 70% church attendance. We don’t have to be ‘a godless bunch’ to quote Tony Blairs own description of his cronies at no ten. (The times Sat 3rd May 2003)

So heres todays quote- apparently the demise of crosses on maps is not yet final but its looking that way!

Nothing is sacred and that is official. The Ordnance Survey wishes that no significance any longer attaches to a place of worship or to a parish boundary. In future a church will appear on maps only if it has navigational importance and will not be indicated as a place of worship. When Alastair Campbell declared last month that, at new Labour, “we don’t do God, he meant it. God is off the map, literally. As for civil parishes they are to be the territorial equivalent of Here be Dragons.