An absolutely amazing fact: nearly all Protestants will nod wisely while saying: “The Church was wrong to sell indulgences. Martin Luther and Henry the 8th were right to establish Protestant denominations.”
Popular history books admire Martin and Henry for their “Brave stand against corruption in the Catholic Church.” Shills for schisms drone endlessly: “The power of The Church had to be curtailed. Henry did so in England, and made his land a better nation.”
Great crimes are intentionally unmentioned. In his zeal to destroy The Church, Henry the 8th killed over 70,000 of his countrymen. Many were tortured to death, simply for being faithful to the Confirmation Vows they took as Catholics. The faithful who owned property that any of Henry’s thousands of thugs wanted were often murdered. Their wives and children were dispossessed and impoverished. Their properties were given to the plunderers. Neighbors spied upon neighbors. It is something to which Protestants are largely blind.
In thousands of monasteries and convents, monks and nuns were rudely evicted from their quiet cloisters. Ripped from peaceful lives of work and prayer, they left trails of tears, begging their way to painful deaths in harsh winters. It is something to which Protestants are largely blind.
If Henry’s crimes are seriously examined, it is clear that he was an evil man. He was a serial wife-killer. He was a serial ax-murderer. Betrayer of friends. Mass-murderer. “The Great Protestant Theologian” was uncontrolled viciousness, easily manipulated by those even more depraved. It is something to which Protestants are largely blind.
He was so bad that many believe he was a third-stage syphilitic, his brain destroyed by sin and excess. His mood swings were vast. As long as those who profited from his plunder kept him focused on destroying The Church and faithful Catholics, they were able to become fabulously wealthy. Their hired clergy developed a parody of the Catholic faith. A structure of lies justified replacing the successor of St. Peter in Rome with the monumental depravity of Henry. It is something to which Protestants are largely blind.
They looted Church lands, buildings, and property. They became rich, without having to invade a foreign nation, waging war, instead, to plunder their faithful Catholic neighbors. It is something to which Protestants are largely blind.
Why doesn’t history teach such truths? Those truths undermine the very foundations of Protestantism by forcing people to look at underlying motives and the raving, bloodthirsty insanity of Henry the 8th, “The Great Protestant Theologian”. Most, seeing such historical reality, understand why it is no surprise that the Protestant establishment has largely dropped such facts down the memory hole. Those who mention the evils of anti-Catholics are accused of “fanaticism”, and urged to be “tolerant and understanding”.
It is something to which Protestants are largely blind.
The schisms of the 15 and 1600s were begun by those who saw that money could be made by transferring, and increasing, cash flows to The Catholic Church into their own pockets. As that fact is seriously considered, it is impossible to avoid questioning the base motives of schismatics whose new denominations transferred donations from The Church to themselves and their patrons. When people in the pews realize that, donations dry up.
The possibility of a reduced cash flow is something to which professional Protestants are never blind. That explains why, of each such vanished historical truth, it may be said: It is something to which Protestants are largely blind.
