BreadOfLife
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Are there Catholics is history who did some bad things?Sort of like the tribal battles between Spain and England right? Like when the Spanish Armada sailed to dethrone that arch heretic Elizabeth 1 with the view to set up a Catholic monarch with the promise of 1,000,000 crowns to Philip by Pope Sixtus V on condition of a successful landing. Nothing to do with the church eh. Of course the same could be said of those nobles and villains who plotted to kill Elizabeth's nephew, the evil James 1 who sponsored the KJV translation of the Bible. The fact that Guy Fawkes and his friends were Catholic, and James and the government Protestants, was entirely coincidental right? Nothing to do with the church. All purely political, and the sole responsibility belonging to individual self-willed fanatics with misplaced loyalties. God forbid that the RCC should even dream of uniting with the state in establishing church goals and ambitions! No such concept could be further from the truth. The church a political minded entity that would dare to use political and worldly ploys to advance spiritual goals? Never! People who think such things are no more than conspiracy theorists and history revisionists. Liars, charlatans, who should have done the homework when attending school. These same folk like to blame the church on other wars also. Like the 300 years feud in Ireland that even in our lifetime cost hundreds of lives. Like the ongoing family arguments in the former Yugoslavia when the Ustasi led by that Catholic (ooops) Pavelic with the support of Cardinal Stepinac controlled Croatia and incited hatred and persecution against the Moslems, Orthodox Serbs and Jews. Tribalism. Nothing to do with the church.
YUP.
Are there Protestants in History who did some equally bad things?
YUP.
Are their CHURCHES responsible for their actions?
NOPE.
Your accusations are as stupid as those who blame the Catholic Church for the Jewish Holocaust because Hitler used to be a Catholic. TRULY asinine . . .