[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Luther’s and earlier ‘heretics’ works were very influential in England at the time Henry VIII broke away from Rome. If this were not so, he wouldn’t have broken with Rome in the first place. People like Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn were already protestants long before the break with Rome, and they lobbied Henry to make the break.... This wasn’t just a unilateral decision on Henry’s part, but one that he was persuaded into by others.

Ironically, in spite of his political break with Rome, Henry VIII was actually a lifelong Catholic, and worshiped according to the latin rite until the day he died.... It was others who pushed to destroy the ‘catholic’ aspects of the Church of England once the break had been made, which clearly demonstrates that these elements were already long established and hostile to Rome before the schism....

[BnBlFlag]

Bingo!

[terycarl]

you need to read more and talk less, your theories of the split from Catholocism are “strained” to say the least

[Cronos]

Luther’s and earlier ‘heretics’ works were very influential in England at the time Henry VIII broke away from Rome. If this were not so, he wouldn’t have broken with Rome in the first place.People like Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn were already protestants long before the break with Rome, and they lobbied Henry to make the break.... This wasn’t just a unilateral decision on Henry’s part, but one that he was persuaded into by others.

Henry wasn't a Protestant theologically. He considered himself most Catholic and against the lutheran and calvinist philosophies. He maintained the same episcopate, only putting himself in charge of the church in England, thereby allowing him to:
1. appropriate all the money and land
2. divorce and marry as much as he wished.