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To: Restorer
Who did Cromwell burn at the stake for being a Catholic, or in his terms a heretic? I'm not saying Cromwell was always a nice guy, but he didn't burn heretics.

No, he just dispossesed and oppressed Irish Catholics. Saying the Mass was a crime. "Heresy," "treason," and "Catholic" were synonymous.

SD

19 posted on 04/04/2002 10:21:03 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
No, he just dispossesed and oppressed Irish Catholics. Saying the Mass was a crime. "Heresy," "treason," and "Catholic" were synonymous.

Agreed.

But Jonah was specifically stating that Protestants reinstated heretic-burning, which was dying out among Protestants. This is an untrue statement.

The post was not about whether Protestants were always nice people. It was about whether they routinely burned heretics.

It's a little like modern witches, who constantly talk about the witches burned at Salem. In fact, no witches were burned in MA. They were hung.

If you start comparing stories of general oppression, Catholics and Protestants have both oppressed each other when they got the chance. Each group shows an amazing ability to obsess about their side's victimhood, while ignoring or rationalizing those oppressions they committed. In this they have a lot in common with radical Muslims.

20 posted on 04/04/2002 10:28:26 AM PST by Restorer
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