Church of England - its founding doctrine was convenience and expediency.
It hasn’t changed to this day, as it now hurriedly adapts to the desires of its new king, Mohammed.
“its founding doctrine was convenience and expediency.”
You gloss over quite a bit. Henry was no more or less corrupt that the Pope. The Pope openly favored Spain and wished (supported) England’s overthrow and did his best to make it happen. The Pope lost. Henry set up the COE out of the same mold as the Catholic Church of the time....with the political and religious center under his control.
Go ahead and hate on Henry, but his action broke the back of the Pope as “king of the world” and ushered in the era of the nation state, and that brought eventual prosperity.
Catholic historic apologists point to the tyranny, corruption and moral failings of Henry “defender of the faith” only after he put England before Rome.
Had he not done that, Henry was OK to Catholics Bureaucracy.
Your lack of truth about the stunning moral and political corruption of the Catholic Church of the time is amusing.
You need to do more than point at Henrys many moral and tyrannical failures to find the hard truth that 16th century Catholicism was equal to Henrys moral corruption and tyranny.