Looks like all round action man and TV historian Dan Snow agrees with my sentiments on Remembrance Day, particularly the apparent alliance between the state and religion. His feeling was that this simple act of remembering the sacrifice of past generations of people for our collective well-being is probably one of the most important state-rituals there is but religion should not "dominate" proceedings. The reasoning he gives seems perfectly sensible to me, see below.
"We live in a country where about half the population say they have no religion. Fewer of us than ever are active believers in the Christianity of the Church of England. There is a great danger that by letting a bishop dominate and refusing to admit a secular presence at the ceremony it will be diminished or even ignored by modern Britons."
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