[lbo-talk] A Divide, and Maybe a Divorce

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>>
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > > "After the war there was a simple reconciliation process, and they
> > were all brought back in as if it had not happened," he said. "I was
> > taught in seminary that this was the great strength of the Episcopal
> > Church, that when all the other churches divided, it stayed together
> > and this was a sign of its great sense of unity. I think it was
> > shameful, that the church considered that unity was more important
> > than slavery."
>
>Someone once said of the Church of England, "Interferes neither with a
>man's politics nor his religion."

As someone who knows the Episcopal Church well, I've always admired 
Anglicans' determination (at least in the old days) not to let anything as 
vulgar as doctrine get in the way of stately ceremony.

I also admire the deft footwork of that 19th-century UK PM (whose name I 
can't recall) whose propriety was challenged on the basis that he did not 
regularly attend C of E services.  The PM's reply was roughly as follows:  
"I may not be a pillar of the church, but I am a flying buttress -- I 
support it from the outside."

Carl

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