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To: Persevero
"The information I posted was obtained from Conservapedia and is not my personal opinion."

That is not what the Conservapedia says. Carles I was an Anglican in good standing. The events you are referring to are known as the Bishops Wars in which the central issue had to do with the authority and powers of the crown. Charles I sought to impose an episcopalian system of church government for Scotland (with bishops), and the Scottish Puritans desired a presbyterian system of governance (without bishops).

The charges that Charles I was "too close to the Catholics" was a charge against his royalist activities. The crowned heads of Europe were largely Catholic and Charles sought to more closely identify with them. Charles married a Catholic (Henrietta Maria of France whom he had never actually met) over the objections of parliament giving ammunition to his political opponents. He further fueled this claim failed to militarily intervene to protect the French Huguenots, who were themselves were the political equivalent of the English anti-Royalists.

85 posted on 01/01/2011 9:12:19 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

“That is not what the Conservapedia says.”

My quote was a direct lift. It is exactly what Conservapedia says.


91 posted on 01/01/2011 11:16:22 AM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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