[NYer]

While the Church of Scotland traces its roots back to the earliest Christians in Scotland, its identity was principally shaped by the Scottish Reformation of 1560. At that point, the church in Scotland broke with Rome, in a process of Protestant reform led, among others, by John Knox. It reformed its doctrines and government, drawing on the principles of John Calvin which Knox had been exposed to while living in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1560, the Scottish Parliament abolished papal jurisdiction and approved Calvin's Confession of Faith, but did not accept many of the principles laid out in Knox's First Book of Discipline, which argued, among other things, that all of the assets of the old church should pass to the new. Read More

[Rashputin]

For most non-Catholic churches, go along to get along always trumps everything else.

Whether it’s reversing themselves to teach contraception is no problem after four hundred years of teaching that it was a sin or reversing themselves and teaching that homosexual acts aren’t sin, they alway seem to adapt to whatever the society they’re in finds appealing.