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Religious Item #2: The Anglican Church
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Oct 13 20:19 UTC 2003 |
News reports -- forgive me for not pasting in a link -- are that the
Anglican Church is nearing a schism over the liberal US wing's
insistence on consecrating an openly gay bishop. This is seen
as intolerable by the conservatives in the church, particularly
those in Africa.
I've always been intensely curious about the ideological foundations
of the Anglican Church. Somehow the desire of King Henry to get a
divorce seems like a shaky foundation for a religious community,
and the idea of the Queen of England as a figure with a religious
role strikes me as a relic of the medieval period.
Disclosure, again: I was raised Lutheran and I'm sure that conveys
all sorts of biases.
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