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he was trying to kill the king because the king was protestant and he wanted a king who’d force everyone to be catholic it’s celebrating that he was stopped hung drawn and quartered L + rip bozo

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ummm no

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot

who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

In 1604 Fawkes became involved with a small group […] who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James and replace him with his daughter, third in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth.

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I always knew God was a Protestant🥰🙏

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The real religion is the one that ignores the text of its own holy book when one particular king really wants to

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Protestantism existed before Henry VIII and actually started out on a “the pope is corrupt and catholics have stopped serving god” platform

Then the protestant churches banned fun and everyone responded by losing interest in religion so catholic countries are actually more religious now

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Glad you pointed this out. The efforts of Guy Fawkes and his team were to restrict the rights of many. Although the character of V For Vendetta is cool, it’s very, very loosely based on the actual Guy Fawkes (who gives me the impression of a bigot, from what we know of the gunpowder plot).

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57 points

Common religious squabble L for everyone.

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