Isn't that funny.

I'm watching the news and the biggest story today is the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla. Now I myself could not care any less about this wedding, or the fact that Prince Charles and Camilla have both been divorced and are being remaried.

The Queen did not attend this wedding, and it did not occur in a Church as the Anglican Church refused to marry them as they say it goes against the rules of the Anglican Church.

So, I'm no histroy buff, but I seem to remember Simpons episode where I "learned" how the Anglican Church started. I could not remember the details, but a quick google search brought this site up:

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/king-henry.html

So here is a little outake from this web site on the history of the Anglican Church:

"It was not that King Henry VIII had a change of conscience regarding publishing
the Bible in English. His motives were more sinister… but the Lord sometimes
uses the evil intentions of men to bring about His glory. King Henry VIII had in
fact, requested that the Pope permit him to divorce his wife and marry his
mistress. The Pope refused, and King Henry responded by killing his wife,
marrying his mistress, and thumbing his nose at the Pope by renouncing Roman
Catholicism, taking England out from under Rome’s religious control, and
declaring himself as the reigning head of State to also be the new head of the
Church. This new branch of the Christian Church, neither Roman Catholic nor
truly Protestant, became known as the Anglican Church or the Church of England.
King Henry acted essentially as its “Pope”. His first act was to further defy
the wishes of Rome by funding the printing of the scriptures in English… the
first legal English Bible… just for spite."

So as we can see from this, the church was infact founded out of the desire of the reigning King to have a divorce and remary.

Funny that. I really find the history of the different churches quite entertaining.