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[tree_and_leaf]

I feel that I'm being a hypocrite, since I would agree with some of the Blair decisions which have been suggested as cause for Our Dear Leader (rtd)'s stand up knock down fight free and frank exchange of views on delicate subjects with the Pope†, though by no means all of them - the war with Iraq being the most obvious instance. But my primary reaction has been (a) glee and (b) fangirling Benedict.

Maybe it's just the thought of Blair being called on his sanctimoniousness; the Guardian's insinuation that by converting now he has taken some sort of courageous decision to put faith before politics particularly annoyed me. Had he been going to do that, he'd have done it years ago.

† Do you think they've got the blood stains out of the Vatican carpets yet?

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[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

As someone raised Methodist but now a cheerful atheist, can I admit that I find the Catholic anger towards Anglicans which occasionally shows up to be a little funny in some strange way?

[tree_and_leaf]

It's an odd phenomenon - maybe it's because Anglicans can't make up their mind whether or not they are Protestants? Or perhaps just because they are so disorganised?

(Or maybe they're jealous of our music....?)

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

I dunno, but I've seen some trufax rage at Henry VII/Elizabeth I for being evil and stealing things from Holy Mother Church, various accusations of heresy, etc., etc., that seem a little more fervent than the usual 'Protestants are heretics' line. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

God point _ I"d completely forgotten that line. Coming from Scotland, I tend to forget that although the English Reformation was less untidy and violent than the Scottish, that doesn't mean it was nice.

Though I'm not convinced by the OMG thieving Anglicans line, at least as it applies to parish and dioscesan churches (because there is a continuity in the identity of the national church in England, though I don't suppose that that line of argument appeals to the RC side). The monastic communities have a better right to be disgruntled, but it wasn't the C of E, by and large, who profited from their dispossession.