“Yeah, there was a reason - the civil wars STARTED BY the COE attempting to strip civil rights from Catholics.”
This is at best a gross abbreviation of history.
The Catholic Church was OPENLY HOSTILE, and wanted a Spanish invasion of England (and inevitable massacre if successful). What were the English supposed to do? sit around and wait to be killed by the Pope’s Spanish Minions/
Those that bore allegiance to the Catholic Church were taken rightly or wrongly as the enemy.
So who really started the wars? Those that expelled and converted their enemy, or those that wanted to invade and kill the English?
Point is, there is plenty of tribal indignation to go around, your attempt to resurrect ancient political hatreds is childish.
Look up the dissolution of the monasteries. This happened during the reign of Henry VIII - he stripped all of them because he was short money.
Talk about a wealth tax targetting only Catholics - that’s exactly what Henry VIII did. Then he passed the Act of Supremacy stating that his Catholic subjects had to declare him the head of the Church or face execution. That’s what he ended up doing to Thomas More - one of his loyal subjects.
Then Elizabeth continued his policies and attempted to exterminate the entire heirarchy. She succeeded. It took another 250 just to restore it after she had all the bishops killed or exiled.
Yes - it was a civil war - but the Loyal Catholics did not start it. They merely fought to keep what they had always had, the ability to worship and receive the sacraments.