This started it, not some monarch.
This started it, not some monarch.
Interesting.
So the muslims, athiests, and leftists are persecuting Christians all over the world and divisive articles like this are a positive?
Ever hear of “Bloody Mary”? Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
From Google: Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch raised as a Protestant.
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The best laid plans...
Now there is Charles and Camilla...and Prince Charles' and Princess Diana's sons.
Shame on you.
Henry never divorced Catherine.
Excuse me? Hid the truth?
I doubt it very much.
More like they were slaughtered by the Kings daughter Bloody Mary, until Elizabeth took the kings new religion and turned it into a liberal version of Catholicism.
This was my summary on what happened in England.
“To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus receive my soul.” With her last words still lingering in the air a skilled swordsman, brought over from France, beheaded the reason for England’s reformation. King Henry wanted an annulment from his wife, who had not given him a male heir, so he could marry Anne Boleyn. In time she too would fail to give the King a son.
Interestingly, shortly before her execution on charges of adultery, the Queen’s marriage to the King was dissolved and declared invalid. One would wonder then how she could have committed adultery if she had in fact never been married to the King. Henry the VIII’s desire for a male heir to his throne led England on a path that would eventually lead to what English churchman would call a “Via Media”.
Henry wanted freedom from the Popes authority but he still insisted his kingdom follow the Catholic doctrine, with only two changes. He wanted an English Bible used in all churches, and the suppression of the unpopular monasteries. The King eventually put forth regulations that only the wealthy and aristocrats could read the Bible, and confiscated the property of many small monasteries adding their money to his royal treasury.
Upon the death of Henry’s son Edward VI, Mary Tudor, known in history as “Bloody Mary”, would attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England. After almost three hundred executions, including that of Archbishop Thomas Crammer, Queen Mary had reversed most of what Henry and Edward had done. Mary died after only reigning five years and the daughter of the beheaded Anne Boleyn would assume the throne.
Queen Elizabeth, whom Mary’s cousin Charles V warned her to execute, not only reversed all of Mary’s policies against the Protestants, but she went farther in her reforms then Henry did. Elizabeth had a policy of theological inclusivism that had no room for Roman Catholicism or extreme Protestantism. Her ideal church was a state church that practiced uniform doctrine that united the kingdom in common worship. Elizabeth’s “Thirty-nine Articles” was essentially Protestant but worded in such a way that satisfied both Catholic’s and Protestants or, “Via Media”.
With the end of persecutions many Protestants who fled during Mary’s reign returned to England, only to find Elizabeth’s religious reforms did not go far enough. With Bibles such as Tyndale’s, Wyclif’s, and others that were written with the help of the newly acquired Greek documents, a new group of believers would emerge.
This new group influenced also by Calvin and other reformers from the mainland, believed in restoring the pure practices and doctrines of the New Testament thus their name the “Puritans”. These Puritans would eventually become a driving force in English religious life and lead the way to religious freedom and the “New World”.
The Tate recently estimated that over 90 per cent of all English art was trashed in the period, and scarcely a handful of books survived the burning of the great monastic and university libraries. Oxford’s vast Bodleian, for instance, was left without a single book.
Shades of Moa’s great leap forward.
Reads more like Catholics trying to erase 1000 years of Church History with their own revisionism.
The Puritans who traveled to the New World, weren’t Catholics in a ground swell movement to return to Roman Catholicism. Rather, they didn’t believe the Anglican Church had gone far enough to remove all Roman Ritual from faith in Christ.
Re: Shakespeare, he managed to well conceal any devotion to Catholicism when he quotes the Geneva Bible.
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This guy is a supporter of De Molay and has other bizarre connections through out the middle east. His take is nothing new. He tries to pretend that somehow his ‘expose’ was never taught until him. Nonsense.
You all know, there is no sexual nature in Heaven? We are all just pure spirits there, and devoid of the masculinity or femininity we need here on Earth for reproductive purposes? No one who was married on earth is also married in Heaven. But, as a male, alas, I WILL miss sex!!
And this, on the religious forum of FR, no less, the biggest Roman Catholic spin machine on the planet...hiding the truth about their own history, a long history of totalitarian rule and persecution. Hiding the truth that they are not the church Christ founded as they claim, but an impostor religio-political machine that arose in the seventh century.
Indeed, we should immediately fire all those Tolkien-like experts in Old English language and literature. The money would be better spent on welfare for muslim immigrants to the UK.
The UK held some notable celebrations in honor their first and greatest king's 1000th and 1100th anniversaries. Although many British articles written about him don't even mention it, Alfred the Great was Catholic and he believed that the duty of the king, above all other duties, was to uphold the faith. Which he did. If he were alive toady, I wonder what Alfred would think of Henry VIII, or of the present royals of England?