Protestants Quotes
For the majority of the time of Christian History, it has been Catholic Christian History. Protestantism did not begin until the 16th Century.
Plunckett was the last Roman Catholic martyr to be executed in Britain. He was accused of conspiring against the state by allegedly plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into the country, and for levying a tax on his clergy to support 70,000 men for rebellion. The English have always feared ever since Henry VIII severed England from the Roman Catholic Church, that the Papacy was plotting to restore Catholicism to England and sponsor an invasion of Ireland. And indeed that was true in several cases, but nowhere near as many as the English imagined. In this case, paranoia prevailed, and the trial was pretty much a farce, but he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered which he was.
This quotation was written long before the “Protestant work ethic” was coined and well defined. Even though Say was a Frenchman from a Catholic country, he and most other serious economists and politicians recognized this vast difference.
Ireland was then under English Control but the majority of the population were Roman Catholic. The Protestants wanted to bring more “balance” to the country. They were so anxious to dilute the Catholic population that they considered Jews as Protestants for this purpose and many of them immigrating to Dublin created the foundation of the Irish Jewish population in modern Ireland.
He had concluded that Spain, who then ruled the Philippines, was incompetent, cruel and immoral in its rule, but that the Filipinos were not educated or sophisticated enough to rule themselves. However, he felt that he had to protect our commercial interests in the islands and the region, and was worried that commercial interests of other countries would take over and control the area. Another reason that this is a very important quotation is that it indicates the anti-Catholic bias in America at the time. Note that the President stated that one objective was to “Christianize” them. However, Spain had been in the islands for over 300 years and most Filipinos were already Roman Catholic. However, Roman Catholics were then a much smaller proportion of the American population and many Protestants didn’t think Catholicism was a legitimate Christian Religion. When the majority of Americans thought of Christianizing other people, they thought of Protestant missionaries much like England. At the time there was very little criticism of the President for the “error” of stating that Filipinos should be Christianized when they were so already Spanish Colonial Policy and Practice was generally terrible and particularly so in the Philippines, See {629450}.
Cromwell’s motivation for Empire was different from most other English leaders, but defeating the Catholic Spanish in the New World would be another of God’s victories over the Catholics which Cromwell and many of his Puritan followers thought was the desire and will of God.
This is an excellent example of the many public insults that the Irish religious leaders hurled at each other exacerbating the intercommunal tension between the Catholics and Protestants. There were amost no Irish leaders of either religion who tried to dampen the animosity and conflict.
He was one of the few Irish clerics who urged a reproachment between Catholics and Protestants.
After taking the fort, Menendez encountered 350 French Huguenots who were shipwrecked on the shore. A few claimed they were lapsed Catholics and “repented” and were allowed to live, but the others, after having surrendered and had their hands tied behind them were hacked to death with knives and swords. Three years later, the French attacked Fort Caroline (near Jacksonville) beat the Spanish and put all the Spanish to the sword in revenge. Menendez reported his activities with great pride. The King of Spain had instructed him that it would be OK to kill and terrorize colonists from other countries competing for Florida. The Queen and the Priests thought it their duty to execute heretics. Menendez did what he was supposed to so civilly and religiously.
Niemoller, a World War I U-boat commander and clergyman, was jailed for rejecting the National Socialist ideology and for appealing to German Christians not to embrace the new paganism of Nazism and Fascism.
Orangemen were the ulta Protestant Nationalists of Northern Ireland. Both Protetants and Catholics had their extremists who publicly spewed their hate, desire for exclusivity, and insults with little moderation from moderates who always risked retaliation from the extremists even of their own religion, not unlike the situation of the beginning of the 21st century, where Muslim moderates were cowed and intimidated by the religious Islamic extremists.
He particularly had difficulty with the Pope and whose authority was supposed to be dominant in Europe. King Henry left the Catholic Church and made Protestantism the official English Church. It has been such ever since—all the result of a power struggle between two men.
