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Entry: Englishmen, and Other Aborigines Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/englishmen_and_other_aborigines#399 Post contents: Reader J.B. is rather incoherent. He says he disagree with my view to then acknowledge that the C of E indeed persecuted people as other churches did in the past. Then he defends the C of E because it produced the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Well, certainly these are good things and I did not attack the C of E because of it. I just pointed the oppressive the C of E was during its first centuries. The Pilgrims left Plymouth mainly because they were being persecuted in England. Catholics were practically obliterated. Other Protestant sects were also eliminated. In fact the Spanish Inquisition was not even close to it, according to Jean Dumont and other historians from different background in 300 yeas of existence the Spanish inquisition sent to death about just 3000 people. The C of E was bloody and committed the worst excesses. Have you heard of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Thomas More, Edmund Campion, Augustine Webster, Robert Southwell, Nicholas Owen, John Kemble, John Houghton, Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line, the Carthusian Martyrs etc, etc? Time is the best judge. The C of E is now in ruins as A. Millar points out in the above article. As G.K. Chesterton explained years ago, the C of E was flawed since its very beginning because it was born out of a revolution that was “a victory of the rich over the poor”. Sent at: 2008 12 02