Church of England downplays Satan in bid to modernize

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. It seems kind of disrespectful to me.

And I say that as someone who isn't religious. Maybe I'm just an old fogey, but it seems like if your religion is important enough to you that you are willing to haul your butt out of bed on Sunday mornings to go to church, you might at least try not to look like something the cat dragged in. And that goes double for clergy. You're an officiant, not the congregation's buddy. Not that God or Jesus would probably care, but it's more a matter of mental preparation or something, I guess, as a way of acknowledging the importance of the event.