Antidisestablishmentarianism?

[racer]

Ok, then it had be be about combining religious and state power, making the head of state and head of the chruch them same.

Anti -disestablishmentiarism probably is the movement to keep the state chruch the state church.

Hey, I was close, that's sort of where I was going

France . . . England, what's the difference? You got the right continent, anyway.

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

France . . . England, what's the difference? You got the right continent, anyway.

They were both countries where church power mingled with state power.

Sort of like the Bush administration.

Who can keep track .

 

[Jig]

At least this thread hasn't turned to protraying systematic floccinaucinihilipilification in regards to my honorificabilitudinitatibus.

 

[racer]

At least this thread hasn't turned to protraying systematic floccinaucinihilipilification in regards to my honorificabilitudinitatibus.

LOL! Risking the chance of being told--again--I'm in the wrong forum, I'll mention a fact I didn't mention before.

The word floccinaucinihilipilification has replaced antidisestablishmentarainism as being the longest, non-medical word which actually possesses a legitimate definition and use.

Now, I started to do as the little boy in the commercial and ask if someone could use this word in a sentence--but you just did.

 

[Dmckay]

It derives from the debate that occured at the time when the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were being formulated. The discussion had to do with whether or not they would or wouldn't establish a State Church similar to the Anglican Church wich was the State sponsored Church of Great Britain.

As you may or may not know, many of the members of the Constitutional Convention were from Virginia which pretty much had a State sponsored church, in the Anglican Church.

 

[Polycarp1]

At least this thread hasn't turned to protraying systematic floccinaucinihilipilification in regards to my honorificabilitudinitatibus.

That would probably be the antepenultimate post, before the one protesting again what the topic is doing in GT and the moderator post moving it to another forum.

To clarify, it was the obligation of the Established Church to minister to the needs and wants of the public in each parish (a geographical area) and in connection with this the Church received financial help, and its bishops sat in the House of Lords. In three of the four realms of the U.K., the Anglican Church (Church of England, Church of England in Wales, and Church of Ireland) was the established church; in Scotland, it was the Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian national church.

This did not sit well with the general public in areas where Anglicans were not in the majority, notably Ireland and Wales, and with the radical wing of the Liberal Party, which was affiliated with the "dissenters." The result was a movement calling for disestablishment of the Established Church, whose advocates were disestablishmentarians and which was itself termed disestablishmentarianism. Obviously, it was opposed by those who disagreed, on political or religious grounds, and who of course espoused antidisestablishmentarianism.