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Ah, Encyclopedia Britannica - the British Empire, having established the Anglican ecclesial community in defiance of Rome, mortal ancient enemies of the Spanish
by Eleison23 4y ago
Ah, Encyclopedia Britannica - the British Empire, having established the Anglican ecclesial community in defiance of Rome, mortal ancient enemies of the Spanish Empire. I'm sure they have no motive to embellish black legends about the Romish Church and English Catholics like St. Thomas More and William Shakespeare were perfectly safe to practice their faith and attend Popish Masses and priests never needed to hide from British authorities. Yeah, totally unbiased source, that Britannica. God save the King.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoThe Encyclopedia Britannica is a U.S. publication, and has been for well over a hundred years.
- afc 4y agoSeems fairly accurate in this case. You can also read about it in Wikipedia anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada You can see all the references in the article (including but not limited to Britannica).
- dang 4y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into religious flamewar. We ban accounts that do that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33005581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33005581 for more. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yazzku 4y agoThere are plenty of Spanish references too. I linked to one the general audience here could read.