[pepsi_junkie]

You think Cromwell did some bad stuff to religious art, wait ‘til the muslims take over!

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[Monterrosa-24]

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.

[packrat35]

You’d have thought curtains would have been installed before now.

[blam]

[Unam Sanctam]

Those darned church wreckovators — not just a post Vatican II phenomenon.

[colorado tanker]

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.