@@LadyWhinesalot GOOD argues Lady !!! BUT: I live in a f_cking village with 99 % dumbfold sheep flock idi-otts . . . so I need the internet . . . so hard to find the RIGHT crowd (but Tom´s Idler is GREAT anyway)
Thanks to good old Henry VIII, who seized all the wealth the Church had accumulated. The Protestants banned fun and the Church went back to collecting tithes and burning witches. The Puritans doubled down on forbidding merriment until Charles II (the "Merry Monarch") was invited back. Meanwhile the worst of the zealots emigrated to the New World.
What went wrong in England was that the Church had become extremely rich and a brain-damaged king let his greed get away with him and found he could surf a reforming tide in religion to outflank the church's refusal to allow him a divorce. That led to an orgy of looting in which the king was able to divide up the wealth contributed by the people with his upper and middle class friends. At the end the church was poor and puritanical and had to go back to taxing the parishioners.
Yes the Reformation in England was a looting operation that destroyed what was essentially a monastic Catholic national health service/cultural hub/spiritual centre for the poor of England.
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Class! Please have Professor Hutton on again!
What a beautiful video, Wouldn't we all loved to have been, merry in Merry old England 🏴.
England was Merry because it was Catholic
I always thought it funny that here in the US we say “Merry” Christmas, while in Britain you say “Happy”. It seems like it should be the reverse.
Ha, yes - it's one of those old English terms that went over the Atlantic.
It’s not so merry now, that’s for sure.
you hang with the wrong crowd, I guess
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 You BET mate ! The whole world going NUTS, crazy like hell . . .
@@LadyWhinesalot GOOD argues Lady !!! BUT: I live in a f_cking village with 99 % dumbfold sheep flock idi-otts . . . so I need the internet
. . . so hard to find the RIGHT crowd (but Tom´s Idler is GREAT anyway)
Thanks to good old Henry VIII, who seized all the wealth the Church had accumulated. The Protestants banned fun and the Church went back to collecting tithes and burning witches. The Puritans doubled down on forbidding merriment until Charles II (the "Merry Monarch") was invited back. Meanwhile the worst of the zealots emigrated to the New World.
What went wrong in England was that the Church had become extremely rich and a brain-damaged king let his greed get away with him and found he could surf a reforming tide in religion to outflank the church's refusal to allow him a divorce. That led to an orgy of looting in which the king was able to divide up the wealth contributed by the people with his upper and middle class friends. At the end the church was poor and puritanical and had to go back to taxing the parishioners.
Yes the Reformation in England was a looting operation that destroyed what was essentially a monastic Catholic national health service/cultural hub/spiritual centre for the poor of England.