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Ironically, I agree that the Reformation was a good thing in general, since it led eventually to a more secular Western Civilization. What I do disagree with is
by ZanyProgrammer 12y ago
Ironically, I agree that the Reformation was a good thing in general, since it led eventually to a more secular Western Civilization. What I do disagree with is the disparagement of a thousand years of Catholic England, the iconoclasm and book burning of the Reformation, and its replacement by a dour, sober, severe Protestantism in many forms.
- SagelyGuru 12y agoI might agree with you there. Though I fail to see how you managed to imagine all those things in my simple statement which implied none of them.
- jwdunne 12y agoHrm, I wouldn't say that. There were laws which discriminated against Catholics for centuries afterwards in England. It was only after the Emancipation act in the nineteenth century where things started to improve and even then it took until the 20th century for anti-catholic sentiment to really die down.