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Subject:	Re: Wren Cross
From:	Douglas Deal <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:01:53 -0500
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Though  raised as an Episcopalian, I have stayed away from churches and 
organized religion for all of my adult life. The unhappiness over the 
decrossing of Wren Chapel reminds me of the much more violent and 
destructive "stripping of the altars" that marked the 16th-century 
installation of the Church of England. Anglicanism took hold amidst the 
looted, defaced ruins of the churches, chapels, abbeys, and monasteries 
that had sustained a lively and vigorous Catholic faith in England. See 
Eamon Duffy's book The Stripping of the Altars for details.

Doug Deal

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