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originally posted by: dale8333
a reply to: gggilll You have to be a priest in order to be a Jesuit?
originally posted by: dale8333
a reply to: [post=20077267]gggilll[/post You don't have to be a priest to be Jesuit trained...duh?
originally posted by: 0hlord
a reply to: vethumanbeing
Seems ATS members are not fans of the Reformation.
originally posted by: KSigMason
a reply to: 0hlord
I love the Reformation. It's one of my favorite periods in history.
originally posted by: 0hlord
Loosing Britain was a significant blow to the Catholic Empire... In my research I learned Catholics were held in great suspicion by the British authorities well into the 18th century and it gives me a deeper insight into the attitudes and sentiments of my own society that had pretty much bewildered me my whole life.... There is good reason to love and appreciate the royal family after all, for without them we would still be under the dominion of Rome!
originally posted by: 0hlord
a reply to: Agartha
Yes, I know but I don't think the change would have been so easy if it didn't have the popular support of the people.
And, if Henry VIII throne had been one where the dictates Rome was taken very seriously in the first place, I don't think he would have A) ever considered leaving them B) Gotten away with his life having done so.
To me, it seems wanting to leave Rome was more likely the premeditated aim of asking for an annulment than actually wanting to leave his wife.
originally posted by: 0hlord
Better? Who knows?
Freer? Most definitely. Without independence, democracy might not have evolved for example.