The HORRIFIC Execution Of Margaret Clitherow - Pressed To Death By Elizabeth I 

@Desert Blue I'm not sure about dogs but he did have dogs feed of people

He was still a monster

Normal day in liberal cities: abortion

@@rangoman1815 except abortionists don't intentionally try to kill the mother and, though I don't agree with it, the women tend to go in willingly

@@thecreativemillenial willful killings - that's what makes these people so dangerous and on par with the Sariah law followers because they justify it as normal

Ain't that the truth!

all in the name of god

Debateble if atheistic totalitarian have the largest count. Doesnt really matter though as the nimber is huge either way.

Towards everything really

@junglemanlawyer1 You mean those countries where the head of state was worshipped like a god and anything said against him was treated as blasphemy? Those places where your suffering was dismissed as eventually being for the greater good? Those places where if you did something out of line you’d be sent to a hellish prison? Some of those totalitarian regimes may have claimed to be atheistic but they took all the core parts of the abrahamic religions which made people so terrified and subservient to them and used them for their own purposes. If you need an example of that today just look at North Korea, an “atheist” county where they still worship a dead man as a god and if you don’t then you’ll be sent off to a hell on Earth.

That was pure murder. The murdering of an innocent child.

Pak De and what do you call her death?

Protestants didn't care about abortion back then, twas more of a catholic issue. But yes, pure evil in the name of God.

Even the Puritans stayed the executions of pregnant “witches” during the witch trials in Salem.

@@dougijcw9758 Really? Like 9/11 and the Holocaust?

Lee Gould where have you been hiding?

Because church is for those who need them the most.

Religion is evil so it's not surprising.

Those who believe in absurdities most readily commit atrocities

And May I introduce you to the Democratic left!

All religions are political

this is what happens when you believe any of that nonsense.

@@tesmith47 with the big exception of Jehovah’s witnesses , that are completely politically neutral , this is the reason why they are persecuted in Russia for instance. They like the original Christian congregation of the 1st century did not take political office in Rome or anywhere else . It’s a sobering thought that not one of our distant families during the 1st or 2nd world war was shot or injured by a Jehovah’s Witness on either side of the channel .

Eric Redekop Came here to post this. Well done.

@@DavidSmith-gj2dm More to the point, did any Jehovah’s Witness ever defend any person from attack by malign or corrupt Communist or Fascist forces?

But that punishment wasn't meant for women! D:

@@OpticalFetish Someone should have told the executioners of Joan of Arc that.

It goes without saying the executioners were British.

@@joselugo4536 Don't suppose you have ever heard of the Spanish inquisition by any chance.

The one that in 350 years processed 125,000 people but only sentenced to death 3,000 people? By comparison, in 38 years Henry VIII murdered 72,000 people.

Leave me out of this.

@@logicn.reasoning9744 Oh, darling, you're hardly on most people's list. No one ever invites you and when some brave soul mentions your name they get pelted with insults, cry "oppression" and "freedom of belief". I like you, though.

@@Palmieres Thanks, doll.

@junglemanlawyer1 God was the original mass murderer.

@junglemanlawyer1 God set a good example though you have to admit and he did create evil. By the way Hitler was a Catholic and Nazi Germany was a devout Christian country.

The Catholic Spaniards ruined everything they touched.

When someone is a fan of a religion or a political party a group LGTB , WHATEVER, believer or not, and you do bad things to others... is not Good... YOU are in the wrong path. We all can disagree in many things but don't kill or disrespect, impose you ideology etc...you become Hitler , the pope killing people in medieval times , communist killing millions , so on and on. I dislike many political parties, i disagree with many religions but as long they dont force them to anyone ...is cool. But anything that is pushed by the force on people saying is "good is my right, whatever....is very bad...cause one persone has also the right to choose. Don't be a Natzi, be very careful with what you fallow ,is not just a religion, is a philosophical ideas that are also very dangerous and this are every where. Stanley was not a religious person and he killed millions, in china the communist party has killed many people also ,and they're not a religion, some might have a bad religion but that's not the case , bad religion, bad philosophical ideas etc ,are bad when there impose to a individual or a group who don't want anything to do with. Religion or no religion, people can be cruel to others and thats the problem with many philosophies out there, trying to tell you that there is no right and wrong , everything is relative, oh they're out there hunting people, check RAVI ZACHARIAH, debating against very crazy arguments and philosophical ideas in young people. Some of them don't want government, police etc Know you imagine that, saying we all can just behave according to whatever we might define as "good and right " the problem is ?whats right and wrong? Well there's the problem, Stanley killed for the right reason for him ,then CHAVEZ IN BENEZUELA did what was right for him , I'm not saying or me think that but people have to be very careful who they fallow is my point, and if is going to harm someone else in a total bad way then is very bad...say no to that ! We all have to learn to continue living together and working with our differences and respect is the key ,don't force anything to anyone.

Tete, of course it was better to allow the Protestant Englishmen to colonize Mexico, keeping in mind the infected blankets with Smallpox gifted by Lord Jeffrey Amherst!

It’s all about power, they justify it using the veil of religion.

jesus, himself forecast that his teachings would cause deaths & wars when he said "i come, not to bring peace, but a sword!"

And also a lot to learn from the pointlessness of the brutality leveled against her.

Yes in deedy.....

Totally agree poor girl.

It really does though! I agree💚

This is an amazing comment. I'm glad you listened to the story, and I hope you found it a source of inspiration. It's important to contextualise the times in which this event occured within. Times are very different nowadays. Thanks so much for your comment.

Vila vila In the name of RELIGION.....

men.

One word simply putting it. "Humams" there's nothing to do with religions, or beliefs, it's simply that humans are barbaric by nature, it's really not that hard to figure out. All we know as a species is destruction, our history proves that over and over again. We conquer ourselves in masses, we murder each other, we execute each other, we slaughter animals and drive species to extinction, we dig the earth and cut down trees. We're the only species that's ever existed on this planet that's done nothing but destroy everything in the way.

@JHeints - I understand why they did it, what I don't understand is how they were able to...

Those who like to dress up and tout themselves as earthly emissaries of an alleged god are arrogant enough.

“And the vermin of the world inhabit it”

Kwai Chang Caine Yup. That was gruesome

@@Clodaghbob Where are you from Bob?

Kwai Chang Caine Dublin. It's Clodagh not Bob.

@@Clodaghbob Sorry Clodag , I haven't seen that name in a long time .

@@Clodaghbob Clodagh **

The duality of man

@@awesomefacepalm full metal jacket reference? :)

@@renegadedonutshorse i actually haven't seen it :) I just feel like it explains man very good

We’re the only creatures to claim a god, and also the only to behave like there isn’t one.

How to the point this quotation of Mark Twain is! Thanks Gwaithmir. I'll remember it!

Poor woman the barbarity of her death is horrendous

And so has every country that’s ever existed - its human nature

Brilliant plan, pressing someone like that to get a confession, it being SO EASY to talk and all while the air in your lungs are being forced out... I sometimes think people used to do these sorts of things out of boredom. You know, whip up an outrage, think up some horrible torture and bam! the Wednesday doldrums are a thing of the past.

@@sarasunshinemt4444 It was not done to force a confession. It was done to get the defendant to either plead guilty or not guilty. A number of people essentially chose to die this way in order to avoid pleading and suffering a conviction. If they went to trial and were convicted, lands were held to be forfeited to the monarch, thus their family would suffer. But if they died without pleading, they were not guilty under the law and property wouldn’t be escheated to the state.

what sucks is in most cases you die regardless....the juries were your peers your neighbors.... your friends your enemies...there was no justice....

My great grandmother (x13) was hung in Salem in August 1692. The “good” judges of Salem tortured her two oldest sons by tying them up hands to ankles, and then hung them upside down until blood came out their noses. Still, great grandma never plead guilty. Elbert Giles Corey was the only other person in those trials to not plead guilty.

I believe it was also Giles Corey who was quoted at such a time for his innocence as saying, "more weight".

Call the judge, get some fudge

That fudge shop made me hungry for some too.

very expensive

Here we are,involved in a discussion regarding the cruel slaying of a woman because of her religeous choices and what do we get? Some airheads blithering on about a fudge shop in the area of Yorke where the pregnant woman was squeezed to death. PATHETIC !!

@@howler6490 mate stfu, Christians did it to Christians now stop crying about it

Demonic sadism is within us all. Don't blame dieties

@@TheRumbles13 -- speak for your kind.

@@EcoSpeeder lol

@@TheRumbles13 -- Not buying your sauce.

@@EcoSpeeder have you had a major stroke or something man?

Play stupid games and win stupid prizes. She should have kept her faith on the down low but instead she dared them to execute her.

There were far worse methods of execution, her death was far less gruesome than being hanged drawn and quartered. She could have been put into an iron maiden for a few days before being fed her own organs and then chopped into pieces. Those days were harsh but there are equally severe types of suffering inflicted on others today, such as being beheaded with a saw on tv in the name of religion.

Pun intended ?

Yeah, I love our constitution too. Government controlled religion... not a fan.

Where the death penalty continues

@@naradaian there is a difference. See 6th amendment. People still act in ways that death is wholly appropriate.. just without a sadistic public spectacle.

And how’s that working out ?!

@Dustin Echos : The US Bill of Rights was based on the English Bill of Rights 1688.

Hell is empty, and all the Devils are here... - W. Shakespeare One of my favourite quotes, because I believe it to be very true. :(

@@juneroberts5305 until judgment day

__ Nice attempt at diminishing, in fact, whitewashing the gluttonous, rapacious, unprincipled dictator's fundamental role in initiating what became nothing less than a murderous genocide, a genocide of Catholics along with all such deniers of any of his prerogatives, ie, divorce on demand, owed to him as the founder and head of his new "church.". Whatever degree of independence you wish to ascribe to these "reformers" it was understood by them that he was to get anything and everything he wanted to get,... and so he did, and did so without objection.

@@photo161 Where's the "whitewashing"? I merely stated plain historical fact. I hold him in the highest contempt, as I do your reply.

@@photo161 Well done for ignoring the facts. EG Bloody Mary got that name for good reason. Also you seem to be forgetting that the RC's killed more than anyone. Inquisition anyone? Some put the number killed in the main inquisition in the millions. Also there were some changes starting to be implemented immediately on England's separation from Rome. For example Church Architecture. The Rude beams were removed almost immediately for example. I suggest actually studying the subject instead of "what my mate said down the pub". But then again that involves reading books.

As said above, Anglican Catholics

@@leehotspur9679 Actually that was your first comment on this thread.

Well said Grandfather.

@Andy Jonnson Do you need a hug? He's agreeing with you. Try to calm down, pooch.

@Andy Jonnson --- Yeah. How would we know what do do without Deuteronomy 25:11,12? "If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity."

@John Milton Depending on what you label "morality", it is quite clear that traits such as honesty, helpfulness and caring about the well being of your fellow humans are *very* succesful when it comes to the survival of any group. While such traits may not extend to outsiders, most societies have come up with them on their own well before they developed writing. Right and wrong are usually easy, but things like religion and greed tend to bring out the worst in people.

@Andy Jonnson --- No. And I'm not willing to live by Bronze Age folklore from 4000 years ago either.

Soon there will be the Covidians.

@@henrydevelopment The Covidians: Survivors of COVID-19 whose concerted efforts to stop the spread of the deadly virus led to widespread health measures which ultimately preserved civilization and is widely credited with restoring the prominence of science in the affairs of humanity.

@@Ezlivin The belief that human intervention or lack of same is the determining factor in the destructive consequences of this virulent coronavirus is in itself an example of the flagrant irrationality of superstition writ large. No, no politician can "control" this pandemic, sorry..It was fear of the virus, once its dangerous nature became undeniably evident to a majority of the public that lead to the voluntary adherence to guaranteeing measures and mask-wearing, distancing etc... not the advice, good or bad from any politician...

People are irrational, sometimes all they need is religious ideology to heighten such passions. I agree with your comment, and add, Margaret Clitherow was beyond a doubt insane, a mad person obsessed, the worst combination. She certainly did not deserve to die. I hope in western democracies we never see such cruelty again.

All civilisations were formed on the foundation of some form of religion which has consistently taken mankind from barbarity to enlightenment and back again to barbarity. The destruction of individual freedom to follow religious belief has always been the factor which destroys civilisation. Your irrational passion on this subject is far more disturbing to me. The terrors committed through ignorance echo throughout the ages.

So nobel, in fact, he deserves a peace prize.

What about the religion of Liberalism?... and the censorship going on in social media? That's a religion as well.

And the English hierarchy gets off scot free ?

The Holocaust and BLM many claim are religions too.

The only thing wrong with organized religion is people. Jonestown was not a "religiion"; it was a cult led by a sadistic, narcissistic, psychopath. While you may want to draw parallels, there is a difference.

@@Dentropolis I've seen no sacred book of those "religions", nor prayers, nor clergy. Holocaust was a FACT, a horrible one, and BLM is a MOVEMENT.

These people were not of Jesus

@JZ's Best Friend All but one true religion.otherwise i agree. The trouble s caused mainly when they mix beliefs with politics, and use their believes to justify their actions as you said.The things you mention are horrific and not Godly, but in league with the devil.Man never learns.

The Catholic Church has plenty of horrific executions and poor treatment of people under their belt as well. Ever heard of the Spanish Inquisition?

@@davidwoolbright2416 Is that a Monty Python sketch?. The Spanish Inquisition?.Not as thick as you think friend. thank you. happy days.

@INVICTUS MANEO LOL! What the hell century are you living in - "HIS BASTARD DAUGHTER"?? Do you think anyone other than some deranged papist lunatic thinks less of Elizabeth - or anyone else - because she is a "BASTARD"?

what church are you talking about lmao? The Catholic church didn't do this, the Church of England did.

No one has said it is.

Well because the proddies where heretics duh.

Deferirent time and the next ally down

The Protestant martyrs were traitors

@@hgji7381 :, I hear where you are coming from 🕷but the calthoics kinda killed the celts so I with the natives

Me neither!

I can, ............communism! Communism attacks and kills your own people, your own friends/family/neighbors, and by your own family/friends/neighbors. In Russia and China, millions died in both their revolutions. After civil wars Russia purged another 30 million and China purged another 60 million, then there are the smaller commie countries with mass killing fields. Communism has killed more of their own people then all the death in both world wars.

Its not religion its fundamentalism in its zealotry form...its when ideology is radically weaponized be it religion, politics, or culture this what happens when masses have been badly brainwashed by corrupted ideologies...

‘Religion’ per se, does not ‘do’ anything. It’s purely internal. The problems come with the way it’s expressed, used (or abused) and controlled. Each of which depends on non religious choices. As for ‘organised’, how many have suffered as a result of organised sport? Humans love cutting each other ‘down to size’. It’s how we make ourselves look bigger. Terrible as Mary’s fate was, it seems she knew what she was about. She drew the ire of authority upon herself, while protecting her family. Which is heroic. is it not? I don’t think she would have wanted onlookers from the future to feel her death was a condemnation of religion, organised or not.

Without religion, what would take it's place? Football?

Yeah that really pissed me off I would though something a bit more jolly would have been better.

You couldn't just disappear.......if you left your village you stood out like a sore thumb in any other village you wanted to go to as a stranger and travelling was a slow process if you were on foot without money or food.

People had a different set of moral parameters to abide by.

Back then you couldn't get goods and services without actually dealing with someone.

@@l34l not different, just stricter.

@@birgittabirgersdatter8082 Nowadays there is no intrinsic code of conduct at all, just what is legal and what's illegal, and if you don't get caught, then "it never happened". I'm talking about the broader scope, the vast majority, not the ideal, ideally yes, the set is still preserved, but from a pragmatic point of view, there isn't a relatable backbone that connects the moral that was enforced then with the one that is dictated by "common sense" today.

i dont think u people understad how it was back then

AND I AM THE SAME. I ENTERED INTO A SEMINARY AT 14 TO TRAIN TO BE A PRIEST BUT I ASKED TOO MANY QUESTIONS AND WAS ALWAYS TOLD "IT IS A MATTER OF FAITH. PRAY FOR THE GIFT OF FAITH AND BELIEVE." RUBBISH. I LEFT THE SEMINARY AT 18 AND HAVE NEVER BEEN IN A CHURCH SINCE; THAT WAS 1959. CATHOLICI$$M AND A££ RE££IGION JUST ONE BIG EXERCI$$E IN PEOP££E CONTROL AND EXTORTION........ [..Sorry I did not think of it, religion, that is.....hahahah!!!...] Keith MANCHESTER

Religion is flawed because man is flawed.

As a religious person, fair point, I don’t blame you for leaving.

Indeed. The punishment was not murder as stated in the video, nor was she condemned by the church as some have alleged above. It was judicial killing by the state. "The Press" was the usual punishment for failing to enter a plea ("guilty"/"not guilty"). The Press was endured by many victims because to plead guilty to harbouring a priest at that time would be punished by forfeiture of property and death - so your family would be turned out into the streets and probably starve to death. The rock under her back was considered a mercy, hastening death, and it was common for members of the victim's family to add their own weight to the press - again as a mercy. The mindset of the time was that condemning someone to death could not be wrong, even if you were innocent - and a child could be hanged for stealing a liaf if bread

@@lindsayheyes925 Life was certainly very cheap back then!

How could an incorrect conviction not be wrong? Well that's where religion was the problem: If you were guilty, it was right that you would be executed. If you were innocent, God would take you in His care after death - so execution was pretty much guilt-free. The pain and shame of execution were the deterrent part of the sentence. When people complain about how slaves were treated, it should be remembered that this "bloody code" applied to most criminals until the late 1820s in England, but was increasingly considered inhumane, although thousands would turn out to watch a public hanging. It ended around the time my Great Great Grandfather stole some sheep. He was condemned to death at the age of 17, but his sentence was commuted to transportation for life with penal servitude. He got parole to return to England after 11 years living in hulked ships, having learned the trade of butcher. It is ironic that his "servitude" was building the Bermuda Dockyard - under the bullwhip and the ever-present threat of lashing or hanging for even a minor offence - for the War Against the Slave Trade. Ironic too, that he eventually lived just around the corner from public executions at Old Bailey, and supplied Newgate Gaol with meat. We have come a long way - but we took our time about it.

@@isaachunt7107 EH...? YOUR NAME...? YOU'RE JOKIN'...!! YOUR NAME CANNOT POSSIBLY BE THAT.....hahhahaahah... I LIKE IT........................... .....................................................LOTS....! Keith MANCHESTER

here's another little etymological tidbit about executions: the word "excruciating", as in excruciating pain, comes from the latin "ex crux", or from the cross. an execution method so painful they made up a new word to describe it!

Yes Shannon, it was done in the name of God, but performed by people who didn`t embrace any form of Christianity. It was caused chiefly by Henry V111 through a fit of pique, because the Catholic Church wouldn`t allow him to divorce for the reasons that he wanted. So he broke away from Rome, formed his own church that allowed himself to be its head and under the pretence of being Christian, incorporated a systematic easing of principles that didn`t obstruct his immoral lifestyle. Thank Heaven that the Anglican Church is not like that now. In any culture, there will always be people who have a blood lust to kill or torture others and if they can do this with state approval and get paid for it, then there will be no shortage of volunteers. Social standards would not prevent this if, say, there was another reformation in this the 21st century.

@@MrHeesbeen I have long contended religion and ignorance coexist hand in hand.

Or more commonly, different interpretations of the same god.

@@unclenogbad1509 Even more common.....Fervent belief in a non-existent god.

Death by Government, political scientist R. J. Rummel, University of Hawaii. 262 Million disarmed citizens murdered by their own government in the past century alone. Six times as many defenseless people have been murdered by their own governments than have died in all wars.

The lead & mercury on her face poisoned her brain, besides its uglification consequences.

She only beame "leader" when the treats are onto her.

Possibly because politics beats religion.

Elizabeth I was a heroine and a brilliant leader even though she could not leave England as all the RC's of Europe were out to assassinate her. She was also put in the Tower by the catholics because of her beliefs. Could you imagine waking up each day not knowing if you are going to see the next one? She was hugely intelligent and tried to be fair, in Religion too, in her decisions but under the threat of constant Assassination she also had to be ruthless at times which she was in some cases.

She was a well-loved leader but could not intervene in a legal process because it would have made her unpopular and invited opposition.

So your whole stance is based on zealots who for the most part were probably possessed by the devil (see the book, The devil in Massachusetts). Furthermore your argument is called at the University level in logical discourse fallacies, "ad ignorantum".....and in case you missed it goes like this, "since you cannot prove God exists, therefore He doesn't." As one Dr. of Philosophy put it, "pretty lame ass argument to base one's eternity on."

His grave can still be visited along with others from that time.

Thanks :) I need to revisit York sometime soon when I can do. Lovely city.

@@TheUntoldPast yes must go lots to do there .. Vicking history all sorts of story’s 👍

CherryLipgloss1000 Look up The Inquisition.

Really. The sharp stone spine trick is going too far for sure.

Then you probably shouldn’t look up the method of torturous death invented by Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie, called necklacing. (It involves a tire, gasoline, and a match.)

@@ibelieveicansoar you lie, you are a white colonist. That treatment was for spies and traitors in the African liberation movement

I think that's what the narrator mean, 800 lbs in total, not all at once.

They are both horrible. No need to compare

The more the reason to show it to them. They're numerous but they lacked a back bone.

so we are to believe, that in a city , that literally killed people based on religious beliefs, someone took the hand , carefully cared for it so it wouldnt rot and decay, passed such hand for generations and generations in the off chance that 5 centuries later she might be cannonized? yeah ,,, not buying it

@@Warmanmx buy it or not, I'm not botherd one way or another. The Catholics are renowned for saving odd bits of deceased people and worshiping those relics. They also encapsulate relics within alters in the belief it somehow bestows extra holyness on them. It's all idolitry in my mind and I'll stick to what I know best, that is scientific facts. Good luck!

Go to Drogheda cathedral. They pickled a chaps head and put it on display. Every altar has a relic, a bone, of a saint in it.

Aye that's yer man Oliver Plunket. It's traditional to say Hi to da head when you drive by! Haha, good luck!

Yeah just ask William Wallace some centuries before right?

Yup!

she died in a candy store compared to how many of the Bolsheviks' victims died. People being wrapped to trees and poles with their own intestines and left there to slowly die.

The Impaler has entered the chat. Hehe

... See also the Chinese death of a thousand cuts.

@Marina Peache if u r interested in history the last thing you should do is watch The Tudors cos even though it’s a great tv show it is so historically inaccurate.

@@shawolarmyatiny hi yes Ur right the Women didn't look groomed and beautiful like the cast of the Tudors the men didn't look like that at all short neat hair well shaven faces and Henry V111 was red haired and fat whereas Jonothan Rhys is nothing like that.😀

Yes, I agree. It is called Islam....

Antifa , sorry,- Fa, would also happily be doing this sort of thing too if they could get away with it.

@@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus - I do not understand your comment. What is -Fa ?

johnwilsonqld I believe the F is capitalised in AntiFa so not Antifa... or most accurately Anti - Fa

@@HistoryGe3k They learned from the best.

I don’t think Henry VIII’s establishment of the Anglican Church could have occurred, except at the time of the Reformation. While Anglicanism may not strictly be classified as Protestantism, other Protestant denominations in Britain flourished since the Reformation!

My understanding is that he wanted an annulment rather than a divorce. He had married his brothers widow which was not permissible by church rules but consent had been granted when Henry paid a huge sum to the church. He thought another payment would have secured an annulment but European politics between the pope and Spain meant consent was withheld.

@BruderShaft1 But it isn't, is it. There are laws, morals, ethics etc ................

@BruderShaft1 Science created civilisation. Religion only ever held it back.

@BruderShaft1 Just because it wasn't called the scientific method back then doesn't mean it didn't exist.

@BruderShaft1 Well you don't build the ancient monuments without learning what does and doesn't work, and that's what science is... a tool/method of learning that when you get right down to it. People have been experimenting with ideas, keeping the good ones, rejecting the bad ones once proven to be bad, since there have been people, we just call that process "science".

Patriotism can also make the good do evil...

that makes sense. I appreciate your comment- there's always more I learn.😁🤗

Always about the property!

Also, her children and husband would be forced to testify if there was a trial. And in the 16th century, that meant that they would be tortured, ostensibly to ensure that they wouldn't be tempted to lie.

because smart people are new, fragile & uncommon: that's why secularism is the same way

Yes, and therefore we in the west must not give in to the demands of Muslims that they be treated as some kind of special case.

Communism is secular. How’s that working out for human rights?

@@richardlloyd2589 communism may not involve god but it is founded on unverifiable and unfalsifiable assertions and works just like a religion.

@@richardlloyd2589The word 'secular' can be confusing, because it has often been used as the antonym of the word 'religious', and so has been regarded by many as just a synonym of the terms 'irreligious' or 'non religious'. This is a perfectly valid use of the word in the right context, and it may explain why you think that communism is a secular system. But the 'non religious' aspect of secularism is only a small part of its broader definition. Secularism emerged from Humanism, and is based upon the idea that people should be free as individuals, as long as that freedom doesn't restrict or impinge upon the freedom of other people. The eight basic secular freedoms are the freedom of thought, agency, expression, speech, inquiry, association, enterprise and belief (which includes freedom FROM belief as well). So I'll let you work out whether communism is secular or not.

It was a popular way of obtaining confessions.

It’s still 1450 there.

Which countries?

Saudi Arabia

Total BS.

@@TheBushdoctor68 no it’s not go to the countryside in Yemen or Afghanistan and you can see the way they act

And all those who died under Bloody Mary's disgraceful rule. Henry V111, Mary1 and Elizabeth1, should have the bodies buried in a ditch.

And yet she did very little to resolve it.

@Repeat After Me: Yes, a horrible Catholic conspiracy called freedom of worship.

Blame the victim. There was more people sentenced to death by Elizabeth I of England, and Henry VIII, than in 3 centuries of Spanish Inquisition.

@@netrolancer1061: It had already occurred when Her Majesty learned of it. All she could do, was criticize what had happened.

@@joselugo4536 And the USA is the only developed country in the world, still executing criminals today. The Spanish Inquisition can’t be justified by British executions! Have you heard: “two wrongs don’t make a right”?

Happens all the time. I do not put anything atheistic on my car because good Christians have slashed tires, smashed windows, and damaged paint jobs of some of my atheist friends just for sporting symbols or bumper stickers about atheism. Funny that I don’t know atheists who feel the same need to damage the property of the visibly devout.

Pray to God, not to people

@@firefly59 Praying to dead people is idotary, praying to a living person is idotary. Pray to God.

@@stephenpmurphy591 I’ll pray to whoever the FK I want you don’t get to tell me ‘The Truth’. That’s the entire point of history lessons like this!!

@@mamavswild Odd how you take a simple comment so personally. That's usually the hallmark of a maglinant narcissist.

...To which he permits and does nothing to prevent. Jk... Saints are as real as your god.

Is that valid from the Protestant or catholic perspective?

The implications of that verse are horrific no matter how you look at it.

Where did you get this information..... the last hanging where?? Hanging continued regularly after 1845...

@@charliebowen5071 The sentence references Horsham.

@@glynnwright1699 apologies.... after re reading its apparent..

Gaol=jail to the rest of us.

@@kenanacampora It would have been referred to as 'gaol' at the time it existed, the form of spelling being preferred until the 1850s.

God worships the saints?

Yes I noticed the same mistake but decided to let it pass. Worship, is reserved for God alone. Saints are venerated.

Which God ?

@@quentinquentin6752 This is not true. Roman Catholics pray to the "saints" which is worship. What ever you pray to, be it a snake, a cow, or a person, etc., you are actually worshipping.

@@beatlesrgear that’s not true. Prayer is absolutely NOT the same as worship. Prayer is communication, its a conversation, its not worship. Don’t believe me, just go look up the definition yourself or do you also wish to re-write the dictionary to conform to your weak understanding of English ?

Yes...Giles was pressed due to this type of law....

Any defendant who refused to enter a plea at their trial in Early Modern England was liable to be pressed with stones upon the chest until they either entered a plea, or were crushed to death. But if they died without entering a plea, they died innocent in the eyes of the Law and their property could not be confiscated by the State, meaning that their spouse and children would not be rendered homeless and penniless. "Pressing with stones upon the chest" was NOT a method of execution. A Trial by Jury could not go ahead until a defendant had pleaded Yea or Nay to the charge(s). So it's lucky that King Charles I didn't suffer a similar fate!

Or the fact that the Inquisition killed millions. But then again most here have studied neither history nor theology at any advanced level never mind degree level.

@@gordonlawrence1448 False. a few thousand were executed over hundreds of years. The atheists, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot murdered tens of millions of people in less than a century.

Elizabeth killed tens of thousands.

@@Goodkidjr43 You need to read something more reliable than Wiki and learn to do some academic critical engagement. The siege of Toulouse and the Cathar Heresy is often included and that killed in excess of 50,000. It also depends on how you define inquisition. Even if you use the strictest meaning there were several. If you loosen it up a bit to include any situation where many people were killed due to "heresy" then you have to include Toulouse (2 of the three sieges) and many others. Oddly the Hundred years war which is blamed on the RC's isnt, It was a Hapsburgh issue.

Fix me one,I could use a drink right now.

Levels of technology and status in a culture does not separate the civilised from the savage.

Unborn babies don’t have any value these days, our sad society

And all in the name of religion! It just shows how any ideology, be it religious or political can be taken to extremes. Barbaric stuff indeed.

@@rep3e4 this didn't happen "this day". Abortion was practiced many centuries ago, as well as killing a baby shortly after birth. People tend to idolize past episode due to lack of knowledge, just like judging other people.

Little Jimmy was heartbroken.

@@iphonemodDOTcom Hysterically funny! You'd make a great comedy script writer. You've even named yourself after a legendary cowboy! Genius.

Yes, me! Heretic and megalomaniac.

the original Brexit

Yep, Luther said there should be no head of the church but god himself. Henry viii hold my ale.

I do

Yes it's called the Catholic Church. Henry became protestant and head of that "church".