Nigel Farage, a key figure in the Brexit movement and founder of Reform UK, announced that he no longer attends church due to what he perceives as the Church of England’s capitulation to the so-called ‘woke‘ agenda.
“I won’t go to my local church, I won’t go. I am christened and confirmed in the Church of England, all my family on both sides have been Church of England,” Farage said during an interview with GB News. “I used to believe in it, I used to attend, not every Sunday but regularly during the year, I will not go. It is hopeless, they’ve given up, they’ve surrendered,” he continued.
Farage‘s comments follow calls from Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Archdeaconess of Liverpool, for “anti-whiteness” and to “smash the patriarchy.” Farage noted that Ms. Threlfall-Homes represents everything wrong with ‘wokeness’ and the Church of England today. “Her name sums it up, I don’t know her personally but I’ll have a bet she’s upper middle class, completely detached from reality,” Farage said.
Farage also criticized the contemporary Church of England’s obsession with slavery and ‘atoning’ for it. “On slavery can I remind everybody that today is the 217th anniversary of the passing of the Abolition of Slavery Act as it became, in parliament,” he noted. “When it comes to this issue. You’d think to listen to some of our lefties, that we are the only country that ever practiced it. No, far from it. Slavery persists to this day. We as a nation have done more to stop slavery than any other nation in the history of our earth.”