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Anti-Protestantism is bias, hatred or distrust against some or all branches of Protestantism and/or its followers, especially when amplified in legal, political, ethic or military measures.
Protestants were not tolerated throughout most of Europe until the
Protestants in Latin America were largely ostracized until the abolition of certain restrictions in the 20th century. Protestantism spread with Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism gaining the majority of followers. North America became a shelter for Protestants who were fleeing Europe after the persecution increased.
History
Reformation
The
Various European rulers supported or opposed Roman Catholicism for their own political reasons. After the
Anti-Protestantism originated in a reaction by the Catholic Church against the Reformation of the 16th century. Protestants, especially public ones, could be denounced as heretics and subject to prosecution in those territories, such as Spain, Italy and the Netherlands in which the Catholics were the dominant power. This movement was orchestrated by church and state as the
There were religious wars and, in some countries though not in others, eruptions of sectarian hatred such as the
Militant anti-Protestantism originated in a reaction by states and societies alarmed at the spread of Protestantism following the
Hapsburg Europe
Protestantism was denounced as heresy, and those supporting these doctrines could be excommunicated as heretics. Thus by canon law and depending on the practice and policies of the particular Catholic country at the time, Protestants could be subject to prosecution and persecution: in those territories, such as Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, the Catholic rulers were then the dominant power. Some anti-Lutheran measures, such as the regional Spanish Inquisitions[3] had begun earlier in response to the Reconquista and Morisco and Converso conversions.
Fascist Italy
In 1870 the newly formed
In 1938, the
Francoist Spain
In
Ireland
In Northern Ireland or pre-
The
The Penal Laws against Catholics (and also
Sectarian conflict was continued in the late 18th century in the form of communal violence between rival Catholic and Protestant factions over land and trading rights (see
In modern
The mixture of religious and national identities on both sides reinforces both anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant
More specifically religious anti-Protestantism in Ireland was evidenced by the acceptance of the Ne Temere decrees in the early 20th century, whereby the Catholic Church decreed that all children born into mixed Catholic-Protestant marriages had to be brought up as Catholics. Protestants in Northern Ireland had long held that their religious liberty would be threatened under a 32-county Republic of Ireland, due to that country's Constitutional support of a "special place" for the Roman Catholic Church. This article was deleted in 1972.
During
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy had comparatively little contact with Protestantism for geographic, linguistic and historical reasons. Protestant attempts to ally with Eastern Orthodoxy proved problematic. In general, most Orthodox had the impression that Protestantism was a new heresy that arose from various previous heresies.[citation needed]
By the 19th century and later, some Eastern Orthodox thinkers, such as
"Hostility" to Evangelicals
In the United States, critics of the policies adopted by the Religious Right, such as opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion, often equate evangelicalism as a movement with the Religious Right. Some critics have even suggested that evangelicals are a kind of "fifth column" aimed at turning the United States or other nations into Christian theocracies.[18]
See also
- Religious tolerance
- Anti-Christian sentiment
- Anti-Catholicism
- Anti-Eastern Orthodox sentiment
- Anti-Oriental Orthodox sentiment
- Anti-Mormonism
- Black legend (Spain)
- Counter-Reformation
- List of people burned as heretics
- Criticism of Protestantism
References
- ISBN 9781603843713. Retrieved 14 October 2013 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Piedmontese Children Forced from their parents". The Wesleyan Juvenile Offering: A Miscellany of Missionary Information for Young Persons. X. Wesleyan Missionary Society: 108. October 1853. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ "The Spanish Inquisition – History of Spain – don Quijote". www.donquijote.org. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
- ^ ISBN 0-8386-3988-7.
External links
- Poll of Catholics
- "Islamic nations views of other religions". Archived from the original on 2006-04-28. Retrieved 2005-08-03.
- "Center For Religious Freedom Country Profiles". Archived from the original on 2006-06-18. Retrieved 2005-08-02.
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