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Do you know that the incident that triggered the wars and events leading to Huguenot expulsion was the Montpellier Cathedral massacre — of Catholics, by Huguenots. There were many, many incidents of murder, iconoclasm, riot, destruction, burning by Huguenots. Of course, they were murdered and mistreated as well, but they were by no means an innocent group themselves.

Remember also, the French fought against popes, imprisoned popes on occasion, and sacked the Papal States...France was not a papal lapdog. The French government was controlled and influenced by turns by ardent Catholics, disinterested Catholics, and Huguenots. France was primarily interested in maintaining the order and cohesiveness of the country, and the Huguenots made themselves as troublesome to that end as the French-Algerians of today. Their eventual expulsion was, you might say, "nothing personal, just business."

The history of religious interaction is seldom as one-sided as any of us would like to believe.

[Regulator]

You conveniently gloss over St. Barthelemy’s day massacre as just another reaction to Protestant misbehavior.

Sorry, me and Mr. T descend from the original Americans - Huguenots, Dunkards, Quakers, Puritans and of course Anglicans.

What the Papists did to us and our families forced our ancestors across oceans. But our beliefs and concepts created the greatest country on the face of the Earth and it took little more then a century.

Freedom of inquiry and self reliance instead of slavish adherence to a corrupt gangster establishment is what produced America.

You can make all the excuses you want, but the last statement is a fact.

We have no king but Jesus.

That’s what my ancestors in the Piedmont said as they went up against their monarchist overlords. If you understand it, you understand America.

[Regulator]

You conveniently gloss over St. Barthelemy’s day massacre as just another reaction to Protestant misbehavior.

Sorry, me and Mr. T descend from the original Americans - Huguenots, Dunkards, Quakers, Puritans and of course Anglicans.

What the Papists did to us and our families forced our ancestors across oceans. But our beliefs and concepts created the greatest country on the face of the Earth and it took little more then a century.

Freedom of inquiry and self reliance instead of slavish adherence to a corrupt gangster establishment is what produced America.

You can make all the excuses you want, but the last statement is a fact.

We have no king but Jesus.

That’s what my ancestors in the Piedmont said as they went up against their monarchist overlords. If you understand it, you understand America.