[ConservativeMind]

I went to and read the link. One quote near the end stood out as helping to make the entire exercise (of equating bad by Protestants in England to bad by the Catholic church in Spain) somewhat moot:

Protestants cannot make this claim against Catholics without having it backfire on themselves.

You see, I married into a family that was previously Jewish, but is now Protestant. As Jews, they were prohibited by Spain's Catholics from entering the major cities, so they worked and bought land in their towns.

[Salvation]

Interesting tidbit of history there. I have German relatives and they also have a different take on the Catholic Church in Germany.