Repressing the Catholic Church and creating the Protestant Church of England and his daughter Elizabeth I.
But how is repressing the Catholic Church a good thing?
shareWell I guess nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Look at all the crimes and abuses the Catholic Church were/are responsible for.
shareAren't the individual perpetrators the ones, who should be held responsible for their crimes?
No because their superiors didn't do the right thing either when complaints were made. Just because they have Jesus as their figurehead and pump out a Christian message doesn't mean the power brokers behind the scenes aren't absolute bastards.
The Catholic Church may have started out good but today I view them as the original big company like a present day Google or even a Tesco. Their product is akin to a drug (opium of the people). They work their way into countries and take control. In many countries they provide free education (like Facebook is free but if you're not paying for the product then you are the product) under the guise of being moral guardians when they're really just after future customers (get them while they're young). They have low level employees (priests) in local churches (franchises) who are basically grunts they ordinarily don't give a damn about. Unless the employee does something the company can be financially liable for at which point they do a cover up. Women were marginalised (no abortion or divorce) and homosexuality outlawed (people whose way of life threatened their message). And then there's the rampant child abuse.
Like I said it started out pure but that was a long time ago. Over many decades it became more about power and money. Heck Martin Luther was disgusted by them way back in the 16th century.
Don't forget Mary I, or "Bloody Mary", who did the same thing to the Protestants in-between them.
It's just petty tit-for-tat, really, it's rather reprehensible.