Posted on 05/25/2014 4:39:43 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Today, May 23, is the anniversary of King Henry VIIIs divorce from Catherine of Aragon the event which started the English Reformation.
In 2003, Charles Clarke, Tony Blairs Secretary of State for Education and Skills, expressed strong views on the teaching of British history.
I dont mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the state to pay for them.
In response, Michael Biddiss, professor of medieval history at Reading University, suggested that Mr Clarkes view may have been informed by Khrushchevs notion that historians are dangerous people, capable of upsetting everything.
In many ways, Khrushchev was correct. Historians can be a distinct threat both those who create official history, and those who work quietly to unpick it, filling in the irksome and unhelpful details.
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I think your comparisons between the horrors of the Catholic church pre reformation and what your Catholic parents endured before they fled to the Protestant country of America from 1900 Germany, are not what I’m talking about.
Why didn’t they go to the almost 100% Catholic nation that borders us?
Your timeline is a little off. The need to flee Germany because of the Reformation ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia. What you are referring to is Wilhelmian Germany’s anti-Catholic bias, blame Bismark, not Luther. If Austria won in 1866, your family would not have needed to flee. Another thing you should blame, the needle rifle.
“There were horrors for centuries until Christians broke free from the Catholic domination”
Protestantism is a heresy.
That’s nice, thanks for the opinion.
I see. Its okay to torture, burn, hang, kill, slaughter, and long as the targets are Catholics and the perps are Protestants. Its all justified.
Sick.
When someone posts what you claim, then you should post that to them, don’t claim that I said it.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we are now beginning our descent into Belfast International Airport. Please return your tray tables to the upright and locked position, stow all loose items, and set your watches back three hundred years.”
So please, spare us this absurd BS about "astonishing ingratitude," because the Protestants living in America absolutely did not welcome Catholics.
Obfuscate all you want. You’ve spent the entire thread trying to justify everything and anything done in the name of Protestantism against some Catholic bogeyman.
America was only about 99% Protestant until Catholic immigration fired up in the 1840s, then by 1850, Catholics were about 5%.
Mexico, being almost 99% catholic at the time must have taken in tens of millions of Catholic immigrants as the Catholic foreigners longed to be with their nice fellow Catholics.
Because of course the Clan is the most egregious example of gaming the marriage laws these days.
Mexico, as a Spanish colony, provided a huge portion of Spain's income and was carefully governed almost as a large military installation. They did not accept whoever wished to immigrate, and as you astutely realized earlier in the thread, they didn't have airplanes, so it would be rather difficult to get there from England, Scotland, Germany, etc.
Also, again displaying your profound ignorance, you seem not to realize Florida and Louisiana were part of the Spanish empire and would be rather easier to get to than Mexico anyway. Many Catholics did try to make for the Spanish territories, those who were not slaves.
“I have no such assurance that anyone, besides the G_d, can even hear my prayer.”
And no number of first-hand accounts would be sufficient to move you to looking into the matter fully?
LOL, why do you pretend that people are saying things that they aren’t.
As far as Mexico being a Spanish colony and Catholic immigration from 1840 to today, Catholic Mexico declared it’s independence from Catholic European Spain in 1810, and won their independence about 1821, so Spain wasn’t involved.
Florida and Louisiana had long been part of the United States when the Catholic immigration kicked off, not Spain.
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“”America was only about 99% Protestant until Catholic immigration fired up in the 1840s, then by 1850, Catholics were about 5%.
Mexico, being almost 99% catholic at the time must have taken in tens of millions of Catholic immigrants as the Catholic foreigners longed to be with their nice fellow Catholics.””
I’m not talking about the 1840’s, I’m talking about the time period from the wars of religion up until the American Revolution.
“It isnt like the catholic denomination is famous for its leadership falling for females.”
The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church is famous for whatever the lamestream media and Hollyweird have chosen to promulgate.
How odd it is that these same media slugs are not to be trusted on any other subject, but if they start hawking a “pedophile priest scandal,” well, that’s pure gospel.
Never mind the facts, Cokie Roberts has spoken. Selah.
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