re: Catholic/Protestant Debate

The Church of England has kneelers because its schism from Rome was mostly political (as the means of allowing Henry VIII to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn). The English clergy wasn’t really on board but had a gun to their head. Now, that said, the Anglican Church is, in fact, Protestant. They bought into iconoclasm pretty quickly after that. The line of apostolic succession was broken, and in the centuries following, the Anglican/Episcopal church has gone off on its own, sometimes weird, course.

The best example of more militant Protestantism in Britain would have been the Presbyterians in Scotland led by John Knox.