Good luck Dr. Rowan Williams, you'll need it

I sure wish the Archbishop of Canterbury lots of luck in his effort to hold together the fuzzy Anglican church. He writes an Advent letter admonishing both liberal and conservative "sides" of the split.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3054277.ece

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The Archbishop said he was writing out of a “profound conviction” that the Anglican Communion was a gift of God and that everyone in it would be “seriously wounded and diminished” if the Church fractured any further.

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And there is the problem. The Anglican Communion is not a gift of God. No offense, but it is a gift of King Henry VIII. To quote St. Lawrence the people of Christ are the treasure. But the institution was created by a King who could not receive permission from the Pope to divorce the Queen so that he could remarry and produce a royal male heir.

What is hilarious in a sad way is that the creation of the Anglican church by Henry VIII and the destruction of the monasteries and churches in England, and the persecution of Catholics for hundreds of years, was done by a King who sought a son via you know, like a woman, in a heterosexual Church sanctioned union called marriage. What he would say about a practicing gay bishop would be colorful and I don't mean the rainbow.

If Henry VIII were alive today he would totally freak at where Anglicanism has gone. Bet he'd load up one of his fanciest barges and cross the Tiber in it, actually. *Sigh*