Anglican

I was doing some searching and reading today about the Anglican church. What I found was a lot of very interesting stuff that I didn't know. This started by reading a post by the iMonk where he mentioned having a set of Anglican prayer beads. I did a search and then some more. I found that they don't recognize the Pope as there head, that I already knew. Surprising to me I found that they don't believe in purgatory, the immaculate conseption, transubstantiation, and they allow priests to marry. They have only two sacriments, the same two as protestants; Baptism and Communion. They consider Mary to be the highest of the saints but they don't require prayer to her, just respect. There seems to be a lot of variety and flexibility amongst different segment of Anglicanism.

One thing I wondered is, "If we have Anglicanism what is the real need for Protestantism?" I'm sure there would be a big list of reasons but I know my biggest problems with Catholism is the Mary as intorcessor, purgatory, transubstantiation, requiring celebacy for priests, and the whole Pope thing. There are others too, like priests as intercessors when Jesus is our intercessor and high priest, prayer to saints. That might be it.

Another question I was having today is; "If something like the Anglican church as it exists today is a good choice/option/compromise, Does the reason for it's existance matter in the decission?"

Even if it were found that it was the best option, does the fact that the reason that it exists is because the King needed a way to bypass the rules of the Pope so he could marry someone that he wasn't allowed to marry?

So if something good were to end up coming out of a sinful decision is the final thing to be judged according to what it is, or by the sinful act that resulted in the final existance?

Any input?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican