No. It was because everyone was sick of their shit!
I mean, that's sort of two sides to the same coin.
Europe had cycles of liberal Protestantism and conservative Catholicism, wherein the response between the two got more and more severe. By the time of the Puritans, you're dealing with people who had friends and family tortured to death for saying "Maybe the Pope isn't infallible". The only folks who stick by their guns on that are necessarily going to be crazy. And the folks who are die-hard Catholic zealots are also crazy.
It's a bit like QAnon and BlueAnon folks being the result of this escalation of tension between mass media organizations.
True, both sides were doing real psycho shit. The queen of England during that period isn't called "Bloody Mary" for no reason.
I also dated a Portuguese woman whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Catholicism because they didn't want to get expelled/tortured/murdered by the inquisition.
Edit: point I'm trying to make is I'm not letting the catholics off the hook, either.
I mean, that's sort of two sides to the same coin.
Europe had cycles of liberal Protestantism and conservative Catholicism, wherein the response between the two got more and more severe. By the time of the Puritans, you're dealing with people who had friends and family tortured to death for saying "Maybe the Pope isn't infallible". The only folks who stick by their guns on that are necessarily going to be crazy. And the folks who are die-hard Catholic zealots are also crazy.
It's a bit like QAnon and BlueAnon folks being the result of this escalation of tension between mass media organizations.
True, both sides were doing real psycho shit. The queen of England during that period isn't called "Bloody Mary" for no reason.
I also dated a Portuguese woman whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Catholicism because they didn't want to get expelled/tortured/murdered by the inquisition.
Edit: point I'm trying to make is I'm not letting the catholics off the hook, either.