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Religion, Sectarianism, Crimes Against Humanity From The 16th-Centuries Onward—Done In the Name of Their God!
Protestantism
History has informed us today that the oppressed of yesteryear became the oppressors of later years. This being true of the Puritans—haters of Catholics, Quakers, Anabaptists and anyone else who was not a Puritan. Puritans started to leave the shores of Europe from 1630 a decade after the Pilgrims, to begin a new life in the Americas, seeking out religious freedom. However, religious freedom was short-lived. By the end of the century, they had attacked those that did not follow their harsh regimes and faith. Religion in the Americas became as bloody as it was in Europe as were the witch hunts too! In the Americas, the Christians communities made-up their own laws such as the Laws And Liberties Of Massachusetts Colony enacted in 1641 (revised in 1672). It was god-help those that did not comply with the religious edicts!
The Mayflower (1620) was probably still fresh in the minds of the new colonists. Just 20 years previous when 102 persecuted Christians Pilgrims (Puritan) sailed from England to the New World to have the freedom to worship their God in their chosen way. Which, was brief as by 1641 the persecuted became the persecutors in the new land. These new laws in the colonies with its capital punishment. Were not a cruel act by a devilish king and his government. Some 3,500 miles across the sea to the East! It was the work of a zealot Christian priest and pedagogue.
The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts served as the basis for civil and criminal law in the colony until the eighteenth century. This code was a revision of a 1641 code known as The Body of Liberties. Which were written by Nathaniel Ward, a Puritan minister and teacher. https://law.jrank.org/pages/11666/Laws-Liberties-Massachusetts.html#ixzz6UtDGkmsW
The Laws and Liberties reflect the Puritans concerns, that the members of the community should live a Christian life—true to the principles of the sect. Laws meant to guide the righteous and punish the wicked, but they were also to be administered fairly. Religious heresy was severely punished as were fornication, adultery, and other behaviour that violated the moral teachings of the colonists. Nevertheless, the code mandated that individuals could not be punished, or penalized without Due Process of Law. [Ibid] Also see https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html America in the 1800s, saw Protestants attack Catholics, and the many Protestant offshoots saw themselves as agents of God, ridding the world of Popery! Sectarian wars were rife. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/when-america-hated-catholics-213177 In Europe, religious wars went on for decades, with families fighting each other was the norm.
The term Popery of which originated in a 1530s hostile coinage of the Protestant Reformation.
As an author of Polemics, whose stigmatized with anti-Catholic or anti-Religion. Yet, the same ones that voice these opinions are themself related through time to the same anti-Popery or haters of all religions that are not of their denomination. White Protestant Supremacist groups such as the KKK murdered Catholics and their Priest as well as Negros and Jews, believing that the White Anglo-Saxon race should be kept pure as per God’s creation. The fact was that only a very small percentage (probably less than 2%) of their members could claim Anglo-Saxon bloodline.
Catholicism
In 1685 King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes. A Law, which was signed in April of 1598 by King Henry IV of France, granting the Calvinist Protestants substantial rights including Religious liberty/freedom in the French nation that saw itself as Catholic. Some of you will know the Calvinists better as the Huguenots. By 1687, the situation of the Huguenots in France was dire. Many had fled France as refugees to Protestant countries of Europe. The French Catholic king had closed most routes out of France, entrapping the Huguenots in a rat trap. Eventually, 200,000 Huguenots got out of France, 50,000 came to England before the French king made France a Catholic nation.
We need to travel back in time, before the signing of the Edict of Nantes to April of 1595. To August of 1572 and the Huguenot massacre. Historically, known as the St. Bartholomew’s day Massacre, which occurred in Paris and other outlying regions within France. Where, as many as 30,000 Huguenots and all their leaders massacred without mercy. This heinous crime was instigated, by Catherine De Medici (1519-1589) the mother of King Charles IX of France (1560-74) and leading Catholic supporter, and the King of France, who gave the order to start the killing. Some historians cite the Pope as a confederate to the scheme. However, the scholar Kelly on Pope of the Day wrote:
When news of the St. Bartholomew’s massacre in France of Huguenots (23/24 Aug. 1572) reached Rome, he [Gregory XIII (1572-85)] celebrated it with Te Deums and thanksgiving services as a victory for the church over infidelity as well as the defeat of political treachery; actively subsidized the Catholic League against the Huguenots…He encouraged Philip II of Spain to turn his attention on the Netherlands and Ireland, from which he hoped that an attack might be launched, on Elizabeth I of England. When his dream of an Irish invasion of England collapsed (1578 and 1579), he gave his personal support to the plot to have the queen assassinated…[J.N.D. Kelly (1986), The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, p. 270, Oxford University Press, London, and New York]
The Americas were blighted when Christianity came upon its shore, bringing hatred and sectarianism to a people naive to its bloody past. Yet, Europe at the same time saw inquisitions to rid it of so-called Heretics, but the blood still flowed. Catholic killing Protestants, Protestants killing Catholics, and Protestants killing Protestant, what do you say?
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Jero Jones
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