Ahhh, now I see the reason for lousy English food. It is a mortal sin to enjoy yourself. (also explains the warm beer)
I take great exception here. Take a good Irish, British, German or (best of all!) Belgian ales and serve them at American near-freezing temperatures and they lose their taste.
Take an enjoyable American beer (Rolling Rock, for example, befor A-H wrecks it) and serve them "European warm" -- and they don't taste as good either. OTOH, some of the American microbrews taste best near the "European" temperature range.
OTOH, if *your* preferred beer is Schlitz (Schmaltz or something like that, I think there was something worse, and if drunk at all it had to be at freezing temps) then I am sorry -- that was only given to my frat's "pledges" as part of their hazing.
British bangers&mash, pasties and a few other items aren't bad at all. Agreed, on my visits the cuisine wasn't great overall but there's far more difficult for an American to encounter in the world. Chickens' feet "dim sum" style near Hong Kong -- amazingly delicious (and if there is a next time I might try them knowingly)!
You might want to take a look at the world-wide Anglican Communion.
Guess what? You'll find that "North America, Canada and Britain," for all they grab headlines in... "North America, Canada and Britain"... are a really small element, collectively a single-digit participant.
Of course, you didn't qualify your statement so it can also be interpreted in the sense of "I can't think of a single adverse impact to Christianity if [any group OTHER THAN MINE] was grounded." And we certainly see a lot of _that_ on Free Republic.
But then, most everyone on FR belongs to "The One Single True Church (and guess what? it's mine)."
It's standard routine on FR to cut everyone else down so YOUR church looks good. And that is my basis for saying I will NEVER to go the Roman Catholic church, much less the known Fundies' -- I have never seen such hatred and thorough ignorance expressed in this forum as I have by Catholics, even (surprisingly) over and above the Fundies', of (formerly) mainstream churches.
Keep it up folks! Jesus doen't shine on through the churches who obscure His message with your sectarian bias, hatred and ignorance. When I see any of these I see a "church" operating on thoroughly false pretenses -- I see a trap laid by Satan, offering hate of its "competition" as its raison d'etre, über alles in der Welt .
Granted I don't read everything in this forum, but the Catholics seem to be the worst haters I see in virulence, numbers and ignorance. (I will accept excuses from the last for poor and sectarian-biased education.)