To: nickcarraway
You think Cromwell did some bad stuff to religious art, wait ‘til the muslims take over!
2 posted on
11/10/2009 10:02:06 PM PST by
pepsi_junkie
(Who is John Galt?)
To: SunkenCiv
To: nickcarraway
Cromwell was not fanatical for his time. He drank beer and liked music. He had to build coalitions that included Separatists, Anabaptists, Presbyterians, and High Church nobility.
Some of the Army like Major General Harrison were much more “puritanical” and the Levelers of the time supported radical egalitarian measures that Cromwell opposed.
Even in Ireland, Cromwell was a teddy bear compared to some of the previous Royalist military administrators of the island.
When Cromwell was Lord Protector, plays could be performed in London theatres with women playing the roles of women which was prohibited at times before and after Cromwell.
9 posted on
11/10/2009 10:41:52 PM PST by
Monterrosa-24
( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: nickcarraway
You’d have thought curtains would have been installed before now.
10 posted on
11/10/2009 11:04:02 PM PST by
packrat35
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.- M Thatcher)
To: nickcarraway
12 posted on
11/11/2009 7:54:32 PM PST by
blam
To: nickcarraway
Those darned church wreckovators — not just a post Vatican II phenomenon.
To: nickcarraway; SunkenCiv
The libs hate Cromwell because they hate the caricature they have created of Puritans. In their day, however, the Puritans were reformers and the English Revolution established permanently the primacy of Parliament and constitutional government.
There is little evidence Cromwell was an iconoclast although some in his army were. Fact is much more damage was done to religious structures by Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister, who among other things led the effort to close the abbeys and confiscate their wealth.
17 posted on
11/12/2009 11:54:52 AM PST by
colorado tanker
(What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
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