Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
No, but it's a facet of being English. You don't have to align with all the facets to qualify. I don't have any religious tendency, nor I believe does rA, but I at least still identity as English. I won't speak for rA.

I think that religion, nonetheless, has defined "The Englishman" historically and although it's a fading facet it is still part of that English quality we are seeking to identify.

I thing royalism is too, again one I don't hold much with. Pubs, Sunday roasts, country cottages - the usual culprits. But the times they are a'changing.
Of course I identify as ‘English’, GP…I was born in England to English parents and, despite spending the first year of my life in Wales, I am undeniably English and have no problem with it at all. Sometimes I feel relatively proud…sometimes, as you too have intimated, not so.
Neither do I deny that religion is important, although not actually to me, I just don’t think the general decline of the CoE and the much less prolific observation of Sunday as a ‘day of rest’ has had any huge impact.