[wideawake]

Henry VIII embraced heresy because he wanted to find an excuse to put away his wife who had done nothing wrong. Monogamy wasn't invented to frustrate him - he reintroduced divorce to the West for his own personal pleasure, putting the West on the path to "gay marriage". Plus being able to steal billions of pounds of Church property didn't hurt his plans either.

Elizabeth did not marry because she did not want to share power. If she really didn't marry because she thought that was somehow a blow against the Scottish church elders, she failed magnificently - because she was succeeded by the Scottish Presbyters' number one choice: their student James VI.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Like I said, you are making the wrong arguments...

The Israelites deposed God and God acquiesced to them having an earthly monarch - - to their own dissolution.

The churches merely compounded the heresy further in taking for themselves what God has given to man.

It is all in Genesis... and the law of nature which no man (clergy or not) can control...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

P.S.

And the authors of that doctrine from the kingdom of darkness are none other than the Roman and Presbyterian clergy...