John Davies Quotes
The churches are ruined and fallen down to the ground in all parts of the kingdom. There is no divine service, no christening of children, no receiving of the sacrament, no Christian meeting or assembly, not once a year; in a word, no more demonstration of religion than among the Tartars or cannibals.
John Davies, 1569-1626, Irish Solicitor General, Member of English Parliament, Speaker of the Irish Parliament, 1604
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The Irish monks were loyal to the pope and were outraged when he was displaced by King Henry VIII. They were seen as a hotbed of disloyalty and therefore ordered to close. This is one of the many examples where an established government church dictated not only how people should worship but also prohibit other religions from functioning. These examples were well known to the American Founding Fathers and much of educated American opinion which was one of the drivers of the First Amendment and the separation of church and state.
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Pope Innocent Iii was an interesting combination of primitive traditional Church inhumanity and intolerance for dissent and modern Christian views at the same time. Consider {45387} and {45384} for his proactive tolerance and protection of Jews and {45383} for his intolerance of Muslims and {45382} for his persecution of heretics.
These suras are ones that for some fundamentalist extremists justified the killing of Iraqis Muslims who worked with the British, Americans or other Coalition forces in the Iraq war or even politicians who cooperated with the coalition.
This was the first major political broadcast on the new national radio station.
This statement in particular was extremely problematical. Sarbi is not just any old Mullah, but the Mufti of Jerusalem, on of the highest ranking Muslims in the World. This statement puts countries like Egypt and Jordan in a very difficult situation as the officials making treaties with the U. S. will be in effect excommunicated.
Luther’s attitude toward the Catholic mass was the main reason the Protestant churches abolished the mass.
The consequence was just the opposite. The Mormons have thrived in America despite vicious Anti-Mormon violence and discrimination.
Constantine the Great. This is one of Constantine’s major defenses of his decision to adopt Christianity. Scholars today still argue as to what part practical politics played in Constantine’s conversion and what part was his personal religious conversion.
Colton also ordered the Abbot to have no further mistresses. There was a basic concern about and prejudice against the Irish for their relatively promiscuous norms regarding sex. See {639438}.
The King had earlier replaced the Pope as the head of the English church. The references to money referred to a then common corruption of the Church whereby people could buy indulgences—religious papal pardons of past or future sins. This was a major revenue source for the Vatican and a major issue for Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformers some of who saw the pope as the Devil incarnate See {623153}. For Martin Luther’s view pf the practice and {626720}, {595195}, and {639436} for other contemporary views.
In Ireland at the time the established church—the Protestant Anglican Church of Ireland—had the legal right to collect annual Tithes from the population in order to fund the activities of the Church. One difficulty however, was that the majority of the population were Roman Catholics. The poorest of them could not afford the tithe payments to any church. The Irish Protestant clergy lived in a particularly sumptuous style and were much more interested in politics and maintaining the Protestant ascendency than they were in ministering to the poor and had no interest in aiding the Catholic poor.
The boycott had been triggered by a breakup of a mixed marriage where the Protestant wife took her two children to Belfast and would only reunite with her husband if he agreed to bring up the children as Protestants. This brought Catholic accusations of a Protestant conspiracy and plot to kidnap Catholic Children and take them to Northern Island to be brought up as Protestants. The boycott soon ended as it was too unfair for all but the most rabid Anti-protestants.
Sir John Davies was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621. He became Attorney General for Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire.
