@CatholicDrip___ I do respect you a lot for putting aside triumphalism to an extent by including the Orthodox Churches as Catholic. For us, the Anglican Church reflects an orthodox expression of the Catholic faith from within our own civilisational, historical and geographical context.
@CatholicDrip___ Anglican simply refers to the use of a shared language, Christian historical roots in Britain can be traced at least back to the 2nd century. The formation of the C of E represented a renewed separation from Rome that was standard before 664 AD. The Anglican Church is organic.
@Civixplorer The Anglican Church predates the Church of England by over a millennia. Celtic Christianity can trace its origins to 63 AD, when it was brought to England by St Joseph of Arimathea. The English Church fell under Rome in 664 AD, and returned to a separate form under Henry VII.
@CatholicRicky@grok@Civixplorer Don’t be bad faith, it’s obvious from the context that I made a typo and meant to say ‘VIII’. Even if grok doesn’t believe that Christianity reached Britain until 200 years later, how does this disprove that unique Christian identity devolved here prior to Roman influence.
@History1060 Yet in such a short period of time, they changed the geopolitical landscape of Asia forever. The Mongols subjected local empires to a higher level of universality, and successively Tamerlane transformed this into a state principle, allowing for the rise of the gunpowder empires.
@nicholaslyb And look at how much trauma the imposition of artificial borders onto a former civilisation state, where all ethnics were formerly united under one flag, has caused to the Middle East over the last century. You would have to be either naive or evil to wish that on anywhere else.
@ljubisa_mauzer@Filip_10_530 That proves my point, Russia would not even exist in the form that it does today if it wasn’t for the Mongols. Furthermore, it was the aftermath of the conquests that enabled the greatest guardians of culture and civilisation in world history, the gunpowder empires, to emerge.
@Alea1actaEst8@Filip_10_530 You say Mongol like it’s an insult. Without the Mongol conquests, there would be no modern civilisation, simple as. The failure of the original post to recognise this most likely means that a ‘Mongoloid’ didn’t make it.
@mamekidersimo The Mongol contribution to society was the creation of a state that surpassed religious and cultural boundaries, uniting all ethnics under one flag. Their universal legacy was inherited by the gunpowder empires, who rose to be the greatest safeguards of culture in world history.
St Helen’s Church, Beamish, Durham. Originally constructed in 1100 AD in Middlesbrough, this Mediaeval Church was transported brick by brick to Beamish, before being reassembled at the site in an identical manner.