Mr Alfred Muggins' Thoughts On The Reformation

      He had been virtually accused of racism in the summer for defending the statues on social media, but there was no foundation to it at all! What would they have accused him of if they had realised he was a fan of Henry VIII? At least he wasn’t going to get his head chopped off, and he didn’t believe that Henry would have been very likely to have understood the concepts of anti-racism very well anyway. The old King hadn’t even been much good on the subject of religious toleration either! It was well known he didn’t much approve of other people’s adultery, or why would he have executed so many of his wives? And gay rights were quite probably something unknown and unrecognised by him!

     Henry had been virtually responsible himself of causing religious intolerance on all sides. While he was a young King he had virtually let people do what they wanted as long as they were part of the broad Church (not the TV murder series (by the way did they ever find out who did it in the end. He had lost track somewhere along the way?)). But as the years went by he created the Church of England, with himself at the Head of it, and therefore splintered the one Church into a large number of confused sects and opinions, some of them legal and most illegal. Most people spent the next few years thinking what side they were on, and wondering which camp would keep them alive for longest.