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To: RFEngineer

Ok, like I said. Look up the 40 martyrs. Look up the Catholic Empancipation act. There is plenty of evidence that Catholics were persecuted in England as an attempt to convert the populace by force. This was wrong.

England was Catholic, and quite happily so prior to Henry VIII. That is my contention. It wasn’t the Catholics who attempted to exterminate English protestants, quite the reverse.


90 posted on 04/30/2013 8:29:37 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: JCBreckenridge

“This was wrong.”

Anyone who defends persecution or execution by one religious group against another is wrong. Whether it’s Henry, or Bloody Mary or England or Spain or anywhere else.

It was a brutal time that is thankfully past.

You appear to long for the “us vs. them” mentality of the 16th century.

England was politically and religiously Catholic. When politics of Rome turned against England, Rome lost the religious ground too.

Moral high ground is difficult to occupy regarding that time, my friend, no matter who you happen to be. To lament “theft of property” over the human toll is puzzling to say the least.


91 posted on 04/30/2013 10:32:01 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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