Remember those occasional issues of Marvel Comics "What if" series? (Come on, you can admit you read Marvel comics. You can even admit that you still do once in a while...)
Well, here's one from an enterprising alternate historian,
I can see that we at Manning House were not the only ones to sit around for hours coming up with world domination theories.
What if Henry VIII had never been born? Or, alternatively as Dom Bettinelli suggested, that he hadn't been such a git?
1. The monastic lands in England were not seized in 1538 - 1541
2. Hence the Great Revolt (aka “the reformation”) does not happen, because the European rulers do not learn from Henry’s disastrous policy that it is possible to go round plundering the Church for loot
1550 Also due to options a or b above, the staunchly Catholic English population fail to become Anglicans. No-one is worried by this.
1553 Queen Elizabeth I fails to govern England properly due to non-existence...
World Decidedly Better Off.
Spared the Ruff.
Shakespeare continues business as usual (minus ruff).
Generation upon generation can recite all his sonnets – and understand them.
Luther sticks post-it note to church door. No one notices...
...
(1694 – 1788) Voltaire has happy childhood, fails to become git.
Things continue swimmingly.
...
1912 Hilaire Belloc and G K Chesterton, having little else to do, spend many happy nights playing cards and reciting poetry.
Belloc blesses World with more verse and Chesterton spends more time with wife, Frances.
All is Well.
...
Sigmund Freud, with the help of his Confessor, overcomes his “issssues.”
World Spared More Misery.
...
Germaine Greer , Jessie Bernard, Maureen Dowd, by positive miracle of God, live peaceably with women of all kinds. World is Staggeringly Better Off.
Pope John Paul II, having not much else to do, spends most of his spare time with Cdl Joseph Ratzinger, playing cards and reciting poetry.
...
2005 English PM, Tony Blair announces severe restrictions on the sale of alcohol.
World (99% Catholic) Horrified.
English monarch, King Francis II, orders his execution. Grants pardon at 11th hour.
...
2006 Catholic bloggers have little to report – fight among selves.
5 comments:
Re: Catholic blogger infighting.
What would we do without Ye Olde Circular Firing Squade?
The question is, Dale, not what would we do in the subjunctive, but now that the Trads have won the liturgy wars, what are we going to do?
What does a professional soldier do in peace time?
It's a problem.
I'm getting into secular politics, probably out of sheer boredom.
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