[Wonder Warthog]

"Henry VIII basically did the same thing when he broke with the church in Rome, and ordered the destruction of all Catholic churches, abbeys, cathedrals, and confiscated the land, and wealth therein."

And by doing so, delayed the Industrial Revolution by 200 years.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Except as I have shown, he didn’t actually destroy all those things. He only went after the monasteries and convents. Perhaps those were the driving institutions behind the industrial revolution but I’m not see the connection.