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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only one who ... doesn't care? I have zero connection to England or the Queen, for my entire life she's been an old lady, and this just doesn't move me.

It'll be like when an actor or singer die whose name I've heard but have never watched or listened to their work. I just think "well, that's too bad for their family" and move on. [/quote]

You care enough to post. [/quote]

Yes, PP just wants attention.  “Look at me!  I’m so cool that I don’t even care!!”[/quote]

No, it's not about attention or being cool. I just wondered if I'm alone. I don't understand why people with zero connection DO care. I understand caring if you've been to England, have family from there, have some connection to the royal family, but if not ... why?[/quote]

England is our ally and is the ancestor, if you will, of this country's culture and laws.  There are many cultures that have come into this country but the founding culture, and the basis of our system of laws, was England. [/quote]

+1. My ancestors came from England, my church is in communion with (and descended from) the church of which Queen Elizabeth is the Supreme Governor, I speak her language, and I've got many British friends. [/quote]

Is that the church that was created because one King wanted a divorce and a new wife?[/quote]

In glib pop history, yes. In reality? No. Henry VIII had a very good (religious) case for an annulment and it was denied for largely political reasons. That also all irrelevant, because the foundation of Anglicanism is the Elizabethan Settlement, not Henry VIII.[/quote]

Could you detail this very good religious case?  Inquiring minds and all that. [/quote]

Leviticus 20:21: "If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless." Similarly in Leviticus 18:16 ("Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother")

Henry VIII was, as near as we can tell from the remove of centuries, a genuinely quite religious man (albeit one with extreme flaws and vices). He had initially gotten a papal dispensation to marry Catherine of Aragon, who had previously been married to his older brother. After the death or stillbirths of many Catherine's pregnancies, he began to see that as being due to having violated the command from Leviticus. [/quote]

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