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

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages at gmail.com>
>
>Till I read this article, I hadn't realized that the Anglican
>Communion was "the world's third-largest church body after the Roman
>Catholic and Orthodox Churches."  It's a wonder that such a lukewarm
>faith, whose independent career was kicked off by a gambling
>philanderer, has managed to supplant so many indigenous belief systems
>and spread itself so widely, a testament to the power of the British
>Empire.

Well, it's certainly a testament to the power of focusing more on dress 
codes than on theology.  Traditionally Anglicanism was offered in three 
varieties:  High Church (most similar to Roman Catholics and having the most 
elaborate rituals), Low Church, and Broad Church.  The mnemonic for 
distinguishing among them ran:  "High and Crazy, Low and Lazy, Broad and 
Hazy."

Carl

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