he was trying to kill the king because the king was protestant and he wanted a king who'd force everyone to be catholic it's celebrating that he was stopped hung drawn and quartered L + rip bozo

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad you pointed this out. The efforts of Guy Fawkes and his team were to restrict the rights of many. Although the character of V For Vendetta is cool, it's very, very loosely based on the actual Guy Fawkes (who gives me the impression of a bigot, from what we know of the gunpowder plot).

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 57 points 1 year ago

Common religious squabble L for everyone.

[–] javasux@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ummm no

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot

who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

In 1604 Fawkes became involved with a small group [...] who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James and replace him with his daughter, third in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth.

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always knew God was a Protestant🥰🙏

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The real religion is the one that ignores the text of its own holy book when one particular king really wants to

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Protestantism existed before Henry VIII and actually started out on a "the pope is corrupt and catholics have stopped serving god" platform

Then the protestant churches banned fun and everyone responded by losing interest in religion so catholic countries are actually more religious now

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

After the Muhammad spinoff I kinda stopped paying attention to the series ngl

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

catholic countries are actually more religious now

In South America and Africa, somewhat maybe depending on the country and what you're comparing to (current day America maybe, Middle Ages catholicism definitely not).

In Western Europe, L. M. F. A. O. I don't think there's a single catholic (or formerly catholic, now secular) country in Europe that comes close to being as religious as the US, by any useful metric.

Within Europe we can try to compare Catholicism vs Protestantism, but let's be real, most of these guys were murdered, converted, or sailed off to the new world centuries ago.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Within Europe though, most Catholic areas (Iberia, Ireland, Poland, Italy etc.) are more religious than Protestant areas (Germanic countries) with the exception of France which is about equally religious...

The same pattern follows in the Americas, even though as you say the puritans were sailed off to the US centuries ago