There’s a lot of biased and revisionist thinking going on with some (not all) Baptists and other protestants who accuse the “Catholic Church” of mass murders, often citing for example “Bloody Mary”. Of course, because under Mary–a Catholic queen of a kingdom in which the majority of the people were Catholic at the time–certain subjects were tried for the state crime of heresy and found guilty and executed, she personally is presented as the wicked agent of Catholic criminals. Her sister, Elizabeth, who ruled for 45 years as opposed to Mary’s 5, is considered the sine qua non of ‘advanced’ Protestant glory. Because in Elizabeth’s case, though, all those whom she had executed for treason --a ‘state’ not a ‘religious’ crime–pretty much happened to be Catholic and to be considered as guilty of treason precisely because they were Catholic– you’ll hear the bleats that " But nobody was killed for their religion under Elizabeth and the protestants-they were executed legally for **treason!
**well, under Mary execution for heresy was a ‘state’ matter as well. But you won’t hear that. No, Mary was Catholic, therefore she ‘personally’ was guilty of the blood of 'protestant martyrs. But Elizabeth was Protestant, and any who died on **her **watch were treasonous would-be regicides and there was nothing ‘religious’ about their legal deaths at all, at all. . .
Google “Edmund Campion” and watch your Baptist friend try to explain that this man’s death is absolutely, positively nothing at all to compare with someone ‘killed’ under that Bloody Mary . . .
