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Politics : World Affairs Discussion

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To: Don Hurst who wrote (951)7/24/2002 10:36:22 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (2) of 3959
 
Re: I used to think you had some credibility....my mistake.

LOL... Never mind SCUMbria! After all, s/he believes Isaac Newton was a Jew....

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James II became king of Great Britain on 6 February 1685. He had become a convert to the Roman Catholic church in 1669 but when he came to the throne he had strong support from Anglicans as well as Catholics. However rebellions arose, which James put down but he began to distrust Protestants and began to appoint Roman Catholic officers to the army. He then went further, appointing only Catholics as judges and officers of state. Whenever a position at Oxford or Cambridge became vacant, the king appointed a Roman Catholic to fill it. Newton was a staunch Protestant and strongly opposed to what he saw as an attack on the University of Cambridge.
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