Father Longecker pulling no punches on Prince William
Prince William was asked about his religious commitment in an interview last week. The heir to the British crown, and therefore the future head of the Church of England and “Defender of the Faith” remarked that he doesn’t much go to church, but he has a “quiet belief” whatever that means. Is it too radical and rigid to ask whether he is able to affirm the Nicene Creed? One doesn’t expect the man to be a theologian, but he comes across as having inherited the depth of his mother. In other words, “Tim nice but dim”. Prince William seems a perfectly ordinary modern 21st century upper class Englishman. A mild mannered, default agnostic. By “default agnostic” I mean he never really gives God consideration. “God—-if he’s there—is the idealization of our values” sort of thing. As such he will be the perfect head of the Church of England—a once noble sect that has now devolved into a pleasant community of pleasant people trying to make he world a pleasant place. An Australian friend once commented in that refreshingly brash way some of them have, “The Church of England? That ain’t a religion mate. It’s a set of table manners.”