He was a brilliant leader, but also a brutal dictator and (religious) fanatic, responsible for the murder of thousands of people. He also betrayed his own ideals he originally had.
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The Vatican sits on a fortune of billions and billions of dollars yet children in poor countries starve to death daily. I'm sure God would approve.
Further proof that religion is a man made construct to pacify the masses.
The pope wasn't elected by God, he was elected by men. Who were elected by other men, etc, etc..
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I am a Scot and a Catholic. 'The biggest criminal organisation that has ever existed?' You're giving a great example of the bigotry and sectarianism that unfortunately still plague Scotland.
The King's Good Servant but God's first

The Roman Catholic church is far and away the biggest criminal organistation that has ever existed. FACT. To even try and argue it shows you up big time. England whilst considered "Protestant" has the Church of England as it's state church. Anglicans although not catholic never fully reformed. Scotland is vastly different, as we are a Presbyterian nation, pretty much as Protestant as you can get, out with the Anabaptist denominatons.
It's really matters little anyway as in 30 years Religion will be dead in English speaking countries.

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This is gas. Are people really having this discussion? Really?
People should not respond to comments like: "What can I say? The man is a legend, if the prodestant church had more heros like Cromwell, the catholic would really be in trouble."
Ignore them. Seriously. Eventually selective inbreeding and natural selection deal with such people.
Did it ever cross anyone's mind that we could all be variously wrong in our assumptions?
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I see Catholic churches everywhere I go. When's the last time you saw a Puritan church? Scoreboard: Rome.

Hey hows your church doing now then beep it dying on its beep arse haha,in england its nearly dead,the catholic church is the fastest growing church in the uk hehe,because of the huge numbers of poles coming into the country,all catholic all young with familys,and that number will only rise.
The anglican church is even talking of rejoing the church in rome,because THEY KNOW THE ONLY CHURCH IS THE ROMAN CHURCH,better rejoin or die mate hehe,though we dont really want scum like you,have fun with your "packed" churches of all of 10 people.
In south america the catholic church is the largest growing church to,its world wide baby,your joke of a church is becoming extinct in its own country hehe,wonderful to see,they should have never broke with rome,and to think it is all becasue some fat beep wanted to shag someone else even though he was still married,look at the problems his sex life has caused,thank beep his beep up church is on its last legs,i pray it soon will be dead completly.

Your dumb,he was a murdering piece of beep they even dug his body up after the royals got back in power and cut it to bits and threw it down a well lol

I thought he was kind of an ass.