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To: marshmallow

The only reason there’s an “Anglican” church in England is solely the result of the ego and sefish ambitions of one man who liked to put his wives to death!


2 posted on 10/23/2009 9:39:42 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: LibFreeUSA

Let’s pray that with this move he can reassemble some sort of Christian bulwark against Muslim expansionism in Britain.


4 posted on 10/23/2009 9:43:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: LibFreeUSA

That’s a strange thing to say. I would put it more like, the only reason there’s an Anglican church is because of one man, the Obama of his time, who thought he was bigger than the church, bigger than God.


11 posted on 10/23/2009 10:58:09 AM PDT by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: LibFreeUSA
The only reason there’s an “Anglican” church in England is solely the result of the ego and sefish ambitions of one man who liked to put his wives to death!

A hopelessly simplistic explanation. You can't understand the context of his actions unless you take into account the wars of succession that had plagued England for a couple of centuries prior to Henry VII's accession to the throne.

A major underlying issue in the divorce drama was Henry's (and England's) need for the queen to produce a male heir.

That takes nothing away from Henry's other faults, but you can't just ignore what had gone before.

28 posted on 10/23/2009 1:32:46 PM PDT by r9etb
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