Isnt this just a made up, bubble gum religion by Henry 8th so that he could please himself with more wives? How did it get so much credibility?
2006-06-29 10:59:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You're damn right!
2006-06-29 11:02:53 · answer #1 · answered by Apollo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Church of England only became more "Lutheran" once Henry died and Edward VI took over. He was a child king and his advisors at court could influence him to do what they wanted. Before that it very much just resembled the Catholic Church but with Henry taking the place of the pope and the wealth of the monastaries for himself.
All religions have an element of "Man-madeness" though. Festivals like Christmas and Easter were deliberately dated so that they could replace pagan festivals. The Roman God Mithras was born in a stable of a virgin mother which was celebrated on December 25th. He also died on a cross and was ressurected at the spring equinox. Sound familiar?
2006-06-29 19:58:22 · answer #2 · answered by Jen B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, none of the beliefs changed, only the head of the church. As my Tudor history lecturer in Canada said, Henry VIII was born and died a Catholic. The only thing that changed was the head. It was not protestantised till later, during Elizabeth's reign really. Mind you some things are pretty similar, eg the communion is similar to the Roman Catholic and High Church of England can be more Catholic than the Catholics. Personally I'm not sure about having an official church as I think the church gets flabby and ineffective and politicised. You have to look beyond the politics to see what is really there.
2006-06-30 10:35:41 · answer #3 · answered by monkeywoman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It got so much credibility because they banned people from being Roman Catholic and made them Anglican Catholic (Church of England) instead. Saying that, thanks to Henry's daughter, Elizabeth I, the people were not only allowed to read the bible themselves (previously illegal) but she ordered that it was translated into English, from Latin and that services were conducted in English, not Latin. Most people didn't speak Latin, and although most couldn't read, they went to church, and actually understood what was being said.
This was five hundred years ago, and its not a new religion, its a revised form of Roman Catholicism, which was a revised form of the Christianity preached by Jesus and his disciples. Roman Catholicism itself was "invented" something like (not exactly sure of the timescale here) by Constantine at least a couple of hundred years after Christ died on the Cross for us.
Protestantism gained its popularity as it brought the meaning of faith and religion to the masses and preached more tollerance than Catholicism had. If you go to a Roman Catholic mass and then a High Anglican mass, there really isn't a lot of difference.
2006-06-29 18:11:43 · answer #4 · answered by Tefi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're right it was Henry the 8th as his first wife couldn't have kids and he needed an heir, the church (catholic) wouldn't give him a divorce so he made his own church and they did. it got credibility by burning down a lot of monastrys and churches of other religions and doing a "George W." on them.. not sure if weapons of mass destrucion came into it but they could have...
2006-06-29 18:10:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It was in support of Martin Luthers protest against the hypocrisy of Roman Catholicism. IE the bread being the actual body of Christ. The mediation of "priests" forgiving sins. Redemption through works and suffering. The elevation of Mary to anything more than Jesus natural mother etc.
2006-06-29 18:12:17 · answer #6 · answered by john n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a political split, making the king head of the church instead of the Pope. A case of reverse separation of church and state, if you will. It's quite ironic, considering that it started with a divorce, that it ended up not allowing divorcees to remarry within the church.
2006-06-29 18:05:59 · answer #7 · answered by Mary Contrary 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course! I dunno about bubble gum though but more like a Xerox copy maybe. He simply played the game and followed the leader as in "Simon says..." LOL.
Well, first he got rid of the pope and then he made it [his church] the Official State Religion of his own realm --exactly what they did in Rome many centuries earlier.
Peace be with you!
2006-06-29 18:08:32 · answer #8 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he made himself head of the church instead of the pope but it still comes from the sam God and the bible in fact if any thing it opened up the bible to the people before that is was read in latin and most could not understand it.
2006-06-30 16:40:13 · answer #9 · answered by Sam's 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he just wanted more wives and to save on divorse choped some heads of then got rid of some of the top one in the church raided a few churches turned us c of e
2006-06-30 05:35:57 · answer #10 · answered by andrew w 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way Bush and Blair got their credibility damn good p.r and marketing plus lots of gullible followers
2006-06-29 18:03:51 · answer #11 · answered by madamspud169 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋