Jesus, you’d think a priest of his stature would have better than that +1 staff
youd think the priest at the origin of the industrial revolution would have a steam-powered staff—holy water steam btw—and do special miracles that depend on the turning of its gears (portable church organ?)
>origin of the industrial revolution
>Canterbury
clearly you’re thinking of the Bishop of Manchester
unfortunately he doesn’t have an enchanted staff at all but he does appear to have Liberalism and isn’t that the real meaning of Manchester Industry in the end?
Wasn’t it like, Presbyterianism tho?
19th century Lancashire was in an America-level religious ferment, with the Irish element introducing levels of popery not seen in England since the Reformation, and all kinds of Baptist and Methodist sects, Socialist or otherwise, growing up after having been seeded in the late 18th century. See also: Quakers, Plymouth Brethren. Even the Mormons picked it as the place to send their first mission outside of America, so that Preston has the world’s oldest continually operating stake, since it was founded before the great trek to Utah, and it was a staging post for a surprisingly large number of people who wanted to become cowboys for Jesus. The site of their founding baptismal act is commemorated by a small stele some distance away but the riverbank itself is all choked up with elders and is fenced off with the decrepit Victorian footbridge
the Presbyterian stratum is from the 17th century and didn’t stick as it did in Scotland probably for national reasons.
Oh, yeah, I think it was Methodism, then, that E.P. Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class couldn’t shut up about
