re: #303 William Lewis

Anglicans never fell for Calvinism either - thus the whole “Puritan” crap fest that the English ended up fighting a civil war over. Charles I was a shitty monarch but really it was the religious fighting that really set the stage for that bloody mess and the even worse disaster of the Commonwealth.

The New Model Army is why the founding fathers of this nation feared the idea of a standing army so much and put such an emphasis on militias. In a real sense one can blame the Puritans and their religious intolerance for the 2nd Amendment.

Cromwell invited the Jews back to England after they were banned for 400 years.