Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:29 am
Protestantism was about reforming the church and reevaluating man's relationship with God. Anglicanism is Catholicism with the serial numbers filed off, invented so a guy could dump his wife without much hassle.
To be fair to the Episcopalians, they've spread a bit since them.
One end overlaps Catholicism and apes its dress ceremony and splendour.
Hence the ease of Anne Widdecombe and others swapping denominations.
At the other there's a fairly stripped down tendency with beards and guitars replacing the cassocks and choirboys.
I suspect this has always been there, since the church has had several breakaways like the Wesleyans since the reformation.
Most of the big protestant groups in England and Wales are Anabaptists or Arminists, not Lutherans or Calvinists.