The Anglican Church of Tasmania is selling off over 100 church to fund ( in part!) compensation payments for victims of sexual abuse by clergy and others. As only a small percentage of the millions raised will actually go to victims and the larger percentage to a seperate fund to build large assembly hall the bishop intends to be used for ‘modern’ services of the US style ‘all singing/dancing/healing' kind he wants to push as a consequence of his Calvinist beliefs the question is why is this aspect of the fundraising being kept quite? I cannot accept the bishop’s simplistic assertion the ‘church’ is only the body of people following Christ and not the buildings referred to as ‘the church’ when the architecture, fittings, stained glass windows etc contain have no spiritual content. Then we have issues such as that of Sir Richard Dry and Lady Dry, being buried under the high alter at St Mary’s, Hagley ( on the list to be sold off). When the bishop was asked about them we were told “Don’t worry about that, we’ll take care of it” was he implying they’d be taken care of in the afterlife or some other process yet to be revealed? This entire plan also shot through with questionable legal implications such as ongoing trusts donating funds to church maintenance etc. I suggest the bishop has opened a can of worms he’s either unaware of or wants to hide. As one is too often reminded of 2nd Thessalonians CH 2.V11 comes to mind. Context may be debated if we want to get down to the nitty gritty of biblical studies but the bishop, although claiming to be well versed in such, could best avoid.