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If all that you say is true, why is the British Empire Protestant?

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Because the ancestors of its present members rejected and left the Catholic Church, setting up Churches of their own. But must the religion of the British Empire be the true religion? Is that the infallible test? If Anglicanism is true because it is British, we may as well add, “and because it is not French, or Spanish, or Italian, or German, or Austrian, etc.” In other words, because it is not the religion for all nations established by Christ.

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