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Beautiful churches that could be the centerpieces for Christmas tales crown English villages-but fewer than one in 10 Britons regularly attend church.

Churches and their ministers once spoke out for biblical values, but Anglican bishops now argue for human cloning and the lifting of restrictions on what schools can teach about homosexuality. A survey after the parliamentary election in June showed that churchgoers voted almost in exactly the same way as nonbelievers. And this summer, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) appointed an agnostic to run its religious programming.

This retreat of the Christian witness within Britain has contributed to increasing rates of family breakdown, crime, suicide, and loneliness. Neither 50 years of a comprehensive welfare state nor higher-than-ever living standards have reversed these trends.

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