The Catholic methods were much more... creative:
The Catholic methods were much more... creative:
The Catholic methods were much more... creative:
Which, as an agnostic who is seeking God, makes me pretty certain that religious doctrine formulated by zealots in the 16th and 17th Centuries is probably not the road to reach God.
But the Protestants loved drawing and quartering every Catholic they could find. The Prayerbook rising in Cornwall comes to mind.
Catholics were treated every bit as cruelly, if not more, under English Protestant rule. Being a Catholic carried the death penalty until the early 19th century.