/lit/ - Literature

>>15809869
Is the basis of your religion best understood by who your king wanted to pork centuries ago? I haven't studied anglicanism but Unitarian universalist makes headway in spirituality

>>15809882
The Church of England was initially set up for Henry VIII to get his divorce, but if you want to understand why it behaves the way it does you have to study the English Civil War and Restoration. Many of the people on the Parliamentarian side were radical Protestants and even Puritans. The English like to pretend that only France had a Reign of Terror, but Cromwell's protectorate was similar in many ways.
In order to survive it was necessary to take a radically centrist position, even to the point of changing your professed beliefs as the political climate changed. After Cromwell's death the Anglican Communion then absorbed all the priests who were willing to toe the party line and expelled those who refused. They adopted a theology that tries to be Catholic and Protestant at the same time, in order to keep the majority of the population happy, but were still willing to persecute extremists. It was illegal, for example, for a non-conforming priest to hold a congregation of more than 5 people in his own home, making it difficult for them to build communities of resistance.
Still traumatized by the war, they were probably not interested in ideological purity, so much as preventing another conflict. That attitude carries on to this day, with the Church mainly functioning as a kind of conflict resolution organization. You can gauge the political center of the UK pretty well by the positions they take.

>>15809869
Evangelical Anglicanism is based.
Anglo-Popery is cringe.

>>15809869
look at that wry smile. how can you not love him

>>15810069
Anglo-Papalism certainly is. But liturgical yet reformed Anglicanism, very based imho

>>15810210
Shame Justin Welby is such a massive faggot though

>>15810069
Both are cringe. The former is more cringe.

>>15810069

Anglo-Popery is based, but Rowan Williams is liberal and cringe

Based tier:
Anglicanism
Calvinism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy


Acceptable tier:
Catholicism
Lutheranism

Cringe tier:
Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals and other brainlet Protestant sects

>>15810756
i like conservative quakers and the odd crazy evangelical red neck tho.

>>15810756
I assume you are one of those "based and redpilled" people who think the Catholic Church was "ruined forever" by Vatican 2. In which case, I'd advise you, for your own sake, not to see what the Church of England actually gets up to these days. It will just break your heart even further.