[dangus]

>> Straw man alert. Can you show anywhere where anyone has ever made the argument that Henry VIII was a ok guy because he only killed the "non-godly" papists?

Why yes, I was responding to this line: "To history she became known as "Bloody Mary," although, in truth, she killed far fewer people per year than her brutal father. The godliness of many of her victims made them stand out."

The plain implication was that Henry VIII wasn't nearly as bad as Mary, even though he killed far more people (And, I might add, was the aggressor), and that the papists were not nearly as godly as people like Latimer and company.

[trad_anglican]

The plain implication was that Henry VIII wasn't nearly as bad as Mary,

I think it says just the opposite. It says she got called bloody Mary, even though her Father was more deserving of such a title. Read it again, slowly.

"To history she became known as "Bloody Mary," although, in truth, she killed far fewer people per year than her brutal father. The godliness of many of her victims made them stand out."