Pagandawn, you are quite in your other comments on the American and Calvinist unhealthy obsession with the Old Testament, but I would have to disagree when you wrote:
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Originally Posted by Pagandawn
It seems that something strange starts with Cromwell. The British version of Protestantism based on Calvinism seems to be something very different from the Lutheran.
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The Anglicans very clearly put themselves in the camp of Martin Luther and not John Calvin. Jonathan Swift, who was Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, made the position of the Anglican Church very clear in his essay
“A Tale of a Tub”. He represented the three western branches of western Christianity as three brothers: “Peter” for Roman Catholic Church, “Jack” for Calvinists, and “Martin” for Lutherans. Martin is shown to be the wise middle brother who avoids his two brother’s mistakes.
It is also worth remembering that Oliver Cromwell’s republic was rejected, his body was dug up and dragged through the street, and the predominance of the Anglican faith was restored.
I myself was taught that Cromwell and his supporters were the political ancestors of the Jacobins and Bolsheviks and should be hated rather than celebrated.