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To: Huber

It would be just as easy to copy and paste the pages from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs but I won’t waste the time and bandwidth...


172 posted on 05/22/2008 5:51:39 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool
It would be just as easy to copy and paste the pages from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs but I won’t waste the time and bandwidth...

That's a wise decision. Skip Foxe and just stick with historical facts.

176 posted on 05/22/2008 6:19:50 AM PDT by Petronski (Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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It would be just as easy to copy and paste the pages from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs but I won’t waste the time and bandwidth...

But that's exactly Huber's point. Most anti-Catholic Protestants hear only Foxe's side of the story. They very easily conclude that Catholics are murderous ogres who desire nothing more than to kill everyone who picks up a Bible.

The truth is a little more complicated. The early English reformation was about the power of the state to dictate religious belief. That was as true under the Protestants as it was under Queen Mary.

Unless you're prepared to embrace Anglicanism and acknowledge Her Majesty as supreme head of the church in England, you and I would both be due for execution under Elizabeth I.

182 posted on 05/22/2008 7:09:32 AM PDT by Campion
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