Good for the government they intended to govern, more than can be said about our current mess.
Nebbishes and tyrants, they each wreak their own kind of harm.
Posted by one who thanked God for the Spanish Inquisition. And so such imposing of religion was original with them? Many founding fathers of American had good warrant for being leery of RCs.
And the English Reformation resulted inthe Roman Catholic Restoration under Queen Mary
After 1555, the initial reconciling tone of the regime began to harden. The medieval heresy laws were restored. The Marian Persecutions of Protestants ensued and 283 Protestants were burnt at the stake for heresy. This resulted in the Queen becoming known as Bloody Mary, due to the influence of John Foxe, one of the Protestants who fled Marian England. Foxe's Book of Martyrs recorded the executions in such detail that it became Mary's epitaph; Convocation subsequently ordered that Foxe's book should be placed in every cathedral in the land. In fact, while those who were executed after the revolts of 1536, and the St David's Down rebellion of 1549, and the unknown number of monks who died for refusing to submit, may not have been tried for heresy, they certainly exceeded that number by some amount. Even so, the heroism of some of the martyrs was an example to those who witnessed them, so that in some places it was the burnings that set people against the regime.[70] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Reformation#Roman_Catholic_Restoration_under_Mary