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To: RFEngineer
No, Henry did what was best for England at the time.

He did no such thing. Out of lust and greed he served the prince of the power of the air. His sins set the stage to subject England to a series of civil wars. He set up his own religion as the State religion. It wsa used to redistribute wealth to supporters of the State, murder opponents and blaspheme Christ.

64 posted on 05/25/2014 2:06:50 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: af_vet_1981

If not for the reformation and the English Civil War, the Stuarts, with their ‘divine right of kings’ be, might still have ruled Britain as an absolute monarchy, and America sure has heck wouldn’t have existed in its current form of cherishing liberty and religious pluralism. The Patriots of New England who were the driving force of the Revolution venerated Cromwell for good reason.


67 posted on 05/25/2014 2:17:06 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: af_vet_1981

“He set up his own religion as the State religion. It wsa used to redistribute wealth to supporters of the State, murder opponents and blaspheme Christ.”

He did those things, he was a tyrant as monarchs tend to be.

But the template he used was provided to him by Rome at the time. At attempt to centralize and consolidate administrative, political, and religious influence.


83 posted on 05/25/2014 4:27:56 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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