Songs of inequality...for ever and ever?

When will the BBC ditch Songs of Praise? Aside from the questionable spectacle, foisted upon cancer patients and the tragically bereaved, as members of the congregation appear to rejoice in their own blessed condition, must all who own a television be forced to fund a weekly promo, for the ‘Christian’ church? Whatever ones view, the BBC remains partisan, despite our increasingly multicultural society, and those who lack similar representation could be forgiven for feeling, at best, excluded. It's an absence of accountability that may lead many to view the use of their money, in such a way, as blatant opportunism, for the preservation of a diminishing faith. A theoretical solution is to provide equivalent, weekly, programming, for devotees of Hinduism; Judaism; Sikhism; Buddhism and every other form of religion, within the UK; in addition to catering for atheists and those whose faith transcends churches. But a better and more workable course of action would, surely, be for the BBC to cease evangelising, at the public’s expense, and move toward a more objective type of programming; one which may, in fact, benefit us all. It’s arguable, anyway, that the programme is a creaking anachronism, which uses the fine music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who is known to have liked neither theism, nor the BBC, to browbeat us. We should, perhaps, not be surprised, because Vaughan Williams was a preserver of folk tunes; to be performed in church and pretty much everywhere else. It’s unlikely, though, that he was a salesman, with his mind set on casting stones at reason and sending us the bill.