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
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).
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.
The real religion is the one that ignores the text of its own holy book when one particular king really wants to
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
AKA the “I only know about Guy Fawkes Day because of V for Vendetta” crowd.
Or anyone outside of Britain.
No one from Chile really cares, either.
Western, white countries are all the center of their own universes
Western, white countries are all the center of their own universes
Means nothing. Every country should act in its own (ie: the peoples) best interest. They should always be the centre of their own universe, as they have limited ability to change things outside such.
“The last man to enter parliament with honest intentions”.
TBF it’s a celebration that a plot to use terrorism to institute a Catholic theocracy failed.
IDK why people idolize the guy, he was a wannabe Catholic theocrat.
That shit Bloody Mary did, he wanted to do that but make it stick this time.
You mean before or after he’s appropriated by Alan Moore as an anarchist symbol?
