[vladimir998]

You wrote:

"The Presbyterians may have broken a few statues and stained glass window, but the Inquisition broke many thousands of humans on the rack, the wheel, the auto da fe, and the gallows."

Untrue. The inquisition was never allowed to use any devise which might draw blood, break bones, maim anyone or cause permanent harm. That was the law. They followed it.

"Perhaps you have forgotten the St. Batholomew's Day Massacre,.."

Nope. I haven't forgotten. I know it better than you ever will. That's why I know it has nothing to do with what we're talking about.

"... a highlight of the Counter-Reformation offensive against Protestants."

There was no Counter-reformation, nor was there an Offensive. There was a Protestant Revolution and a Catholic Reformation.

[Wallace T.]

Vlad, you were the one who started this Papist-Prod food fight with a pointless, gratuitous insult to Presbyterians, and by extension, all Protestants. As far as I am concerned, both sides in that era behaved little better than the Communists and the Nazis in the last century, or the Islamist extremists of our time. Making excuses for the atrocities on either side is on the level of the Holocaust denial of anti-Semites or ignoring the concentration camps and mass murder committed by the Communists on the part of liberals.

Calling the Reformation a Revolution is equivalent to the liberals renaming A.D. and B.C. as CE and BCE. In other words, a "rad trad" Catholic version of political correctness.