Okay, so Catholics burning Protestants equals legend, and Protestant burning Catholics equals brutal repression. Also, differences in Bibles boils down to Catholics making things clear, and Protestants making things obscure.
I mean, it’s not like any FReepers are actually adults. All you really need are black and white, and about three tons of condescension, and you’re done.
Except the part, of course, about who burned who first. Because some people might feel that matters, since the first burners could be seen as the repressionists, and the second burners could be seen as retaliating, or even fighting back, in a political war for their very lives.
I know, I know, that’s an additional color past black and white.
Sorry.
No, the Catholics burning Protestants thing isn’t purely a legend. After the Protestants took over England, and massacred every priest, nun, and monk they could get their hands on, slaughtered countless children, seized the seminaries, destroyed every book, window and statue* they could find, razed the churches, etc., there were plenty of Catholics who enacted revenge on the instigators of such cultural genocide.
(* given a large, illiterate population, churches were filled with statues and windows which depicted the lives of saints and the stories of the bibles. People would memorize the meaning of each of dozens of unique features in each image, and by doing so learn their cultural heritage. The King’s iconoclasm wasn’t religious: he smashed statues of Christ, and erected statues of himself! It was an attempt to eliminate the cultural heritage of Christian Britain.)