England and Wales now minority Christian

"(S)ecularists and others now want an end to the Church of England’s position as an established church which requires King Charles to make an oath to preserve the Church of England, guarantees Church of England bishops and archbishops 26 seats in the House of Lords, and means state schools can be required to hold Christian worship"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/calls-grow-to-disestablish-church-of-england-as-christians-become-minority

How hot a topic for the British people would the question of whether to disestablish the Church of England be?

They should abolish the Church of England, House of Lords, nobility in total, and use the money and wealth of the former Royal Family to pay reparations to the Irish.

"However, "no religion" was the second most common response after "Christian", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said."
That means that "Christian" is still the most common answer. So even if they're at less than 50%, they're still the majority. It's still the biggest demographic.

Finally some scholarship is coming out that empirically demonstrates how the motley early Christian churches were constituted, and it’s not exactly how the church fathers later told it.

St Paul never indicated in his writings that Jesus was a god, he understood him to be a human who was elevated to divinity just like others had been according to the Hebrew Scriptures such as Elijah. This is how the Jewish-Christians understood him, but this version was eliminated as more gnostic mystery religions began adopting Christianity into their rites. By the end of the century, John wrote his Gospel that established Jesus as God himself.  

Even Judaism wasn’t the same. The modern version started up about the time of Constantine. 

Hmm, I think the jury's out on that one. I've heard some academics argue the opposite - Paul understood Jesus in fully divine terms and it was the later Gospel authors who tried to turn him into a historical man. And others argue for the more traditional "Jesus was fully god yet fully man" interpretation of Paul.

Would that cancel my Church of England baptism?

Much later though. Paul got his idea of Jesus as a human to divine status in heaven with God, but with a “risen” body, from other biblical heroes like Enoch given the same status, so Paul was not teaching blasphemy per se. Humans being assumed into Heaven had plausible precedence in their belief system. The other general messianic expectations that the messiah would go divine was unique it seems to him. 

Paul, like Jesus, believes in the coming apocalypse where the Messiah as king and warrior will usher in God’s Kingdom. Any Jew not prepared could miss out on the kingdom. According to messianic eschatology, the earth will open and the Children of Israel will bodily “arise” from their long dead graves to rule a New Earth. As Paul understands it according to his study of the Scriptures, which was probably from a Greek translation, Jesus is the first of risen children of Israel. He is the sure sign and just like he had preached, he’s coming back soon. 

The idea that Jesus was more a man began with Jesus’ own preaching, but he didn’t call himself a divine God or son of one, but he is special man like the heroes of Scripture come to do God’s work on earth to the end history the creation story had began. When Jesus didn’t return after his and the first Jewish disciples died out leaving the gentiles with the narratives, Jesus escalated into a standard cult god, though a very exclusive and pushy one. 





 

It might be my Get Out Of Hell card.