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To: ansel12; Steve_Seattle

Now you’re trying to have it both ways.

You want to blame the religious and political institutions of Catholicism for those tried and condemned by her for crimes of heresy and so on.

Yet you don’t want to blame Protestantism for the ideals that motivated royals and nobility like Henry VIII to ransack countless monasteries (uprooting centuries of culture rooted around the European monastics), and to persecute countless Catholics that refused to convert, even to the point of execution for some accused of treason (for the religion of the state was now supreme, and those who did not convert could therefore be deemed treasonous).

To be polite, that’s utter hogwash.


110 posted on 07/11/2024 2:58:59 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

The Catholic church is a single denomination under a single authority, that wild Catholic king was not, he was just him and his argument with his Catholic church.


111 posted on 07/11/2024 3:09:03 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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