An outside caterer preparing the nave ⁦of St Edmundsbury Cathedral ⁩ for a Masonic fund-raising dinner tonight

 

This is normal now in Protestant cathedrals in England. A silent discotheque took place in Canterbury Cathedral recently, which was the shrine in Catholic times of St Thomas a Becket, and the nave of the ancient Rochester Cathedral was used for crazy golf in 2019.

In Catholic churches the Blessed Sacrament is reserved and a red light shines over the Eucharist to tell people where to genuflect, but there is nothing specifically sacred in a Protestant church. It's just a place.

My friend Bunny Sheffield said that 'People who don't believe in their own religion are destined to be conquered by people who believe in theirs.'

A silent discotheque sounds very strange and reminds me of Nietzsche's remark 'And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.'