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In reply to the discussion: Do you know why Catholics put money in the collection plate at Sunday mass? [View all]CTyankee
(63,903 posts)I did, I think she would probably laugh and say that her faith is more deeply rooted in the Christian faith and that is what matters. I doubt that she would care very much about Henry VIII. But that's an interesting question. She is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and I'd be interested in knowing what the thinking is there (altho the Div School was actually founded by American Congregationalists).
I agree with you, tho, that most religious bodies have strange histories. Frankly, it turns me off religion. And religion in my family has some roots. I have an ordained United Methodist Church minister (female) and will have (come June 8th) an ordained rabbi (female) in the Reformed Judaic movement. And my grandfather was a Southern Baptist minister...talk about strange roots...