Thanks be to the Pope who made me take an interest in these things while he was here!
The Toleration and Test Acts is an affront to all civilised values. No wonder the Pilgrim Fathers fucked off to America.
After Henry VIII's break from Rome and there was established the Church of England AKA a Creature of the State, there occurred schism within schism. Within the Anglican Church, those who dissented from it were in turn discriminated against and persecuted.
Those who did not agree to the 39 Articles were treated as odd and inferior, and deprived of their entitlement to take certain learned and important positions in education and government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Nine_Articles
If Henry had not broken from Rome, there would not have been such religious intolerance and mutual suspicion, and not quite so many people would have died over whether the Bible was translated into English, which prayer book was used, how much of it was used, and whether people had to be forced into using a particular prayer book and which bits of it etc etc.
If Henry had been Muslim, he would not have needed to ask the Pope's permission to take another wife. There would have been no problem at all and two of his six wives would have died with their heads on their shoulders.
The ordinary English folk would have been less prone to being burnt as a heretic or as a Catholic or discriminated against as a Dissenter.
BNP men fretting about the declining numbers and deteriorating quality of the white race would, if Muslim, rest easy in the comforting thought that their Islamic ability to take four wives and sire children with them will quickly replace the birth rate of legitimate white babies with two married parents whose numbers have been so hideously ravaged by extremist feminism.
Indeed, there would have been no extremist feminism at all to contend with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Toleration_1689
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39_Articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_the_Trinity_Act_1813
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_Act_1698
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Yeah, England has a reputation in the 'states as some great originator of liberty; really, it's a mixed bag, like most nations. The Persian Empire, for example, had miniscule taxes compared to 18th century France. Were the Persians libertarians? No, but they were better to do business with. Likewise, much of England's vaunted liberties were a product of a couple of very unpopular liberal ministers who decided to ram free trade down the throat of protectionist landlords and plebians alike.
This is the sort of thing that could never happen in England today. Someone defying not only the lumpenproletariate AND the faceless bureaucracy would be burnt alive.
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