The US is very interesting as a contrast
In the UK there's an enormous detritus of tradition and convention which is sometimes pretty benign (things like the Monarch being anointed before Coronation) and sometimes quite worrying (like the Bishops in the upper chamber). Most people don't worry about it most of the time.
In America, on the other hand, they had Founding Fathers who set up a secular state, and were pretty unequivocal about that (Treaty of Tripoli, for example), but a population many of whom are passionately fighting to make it less so.
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Bishops in the House of Lords don't worry me,
there are only 25 of them, far fewer than Tory hereditary peers (49), and if they were in proportion to the number of regular churchgoers we'd have about a hundred.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 15:09,
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