Or more precisely, he said “Christ Says Keep Away from the Bible”.

How exactly he knows this, we are not told, but he seems pretty certain.

Archbishop Jonathan Blake is the presiding Archbishop of the Open Episcopal Church, a “radical fluid open connecting space for everyone in search of meaning, justice, love, truth and life”, whatever that means.

He is no stranger to controversy: in 2017 he was found guilty of sending abusive messages.

He was a Church of England vicar up until 1994, when he left.

After writing a book called “For God’s Sake Don’t Go To Church”, he formed the Open Episcopal Church, presumably having decided not to follow his own advice.

In his latest foray into the far reaches of the clerical lunatic fringe he has posted this video. We can only speculate as to whether this is an attempt to be reassimilated back into the Church of England.