Monday, July 26, 2010

Number 14 - They took the Christ out of Christianity

Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife was not sterile, in fact she gave birth to at least 5 children (only one survived into adulthood) and was pregnant many more times than that, she and Henry were married for 20 years before Henry applied to the Pope to have the marriage annulled. He was originally granted the annulment by the Archbishop of Canterbury (the Pope's representative in Britain) on the grounds that Catherine was originally Henry's sister-in-law,and therefore the marriage was illegal, the Pope however refused, but this was more likely because he was scared of Catherine's nephew (the holy Roman Emperor Charles V), but by that time it was too late and Henry had married Anne Boleyn, so rather than face a long legal battle he probably would not win he decided to separate Britain from the Roman Catholic Church and created the Church of England.
Anne Boleyn was not "bulldog-faced" at all, in fact by all accounts she was a very attractive and well educated woman (perhaps too attractive as this is what led to her demise).
As for the fact that the Anglican Church (really called the Church of England) is still around 500 years later, this is true, but, where did Mormonism start? Or for that matter Jehovah's Witnesses? That's right once again, America!

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