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To: Neocon who wrote (68219)	12/23/1999 2:06:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Not sure what you mean by "Act of Supremacy," I think that's an act passed during the time of Elizabeth I. The act More is said not to have sworn to was the Act of Succession. As I posted earlier to CharleyMane, More didn't really object to the Act of Succession, but he did object to swearing to other acts passed in the same term of Parliament.

To: Neocon who wrote (68219)	12/23/1999 2:42:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

As I said, More was a complicated and conflicted man. The play is fiction, stagecraft, and presents no accurate or balanced picture of More's life. He was obviously quite religious, and that is but one of the reasons that he was such a rat. He was responsible for the judicial murder of many heretics and was self-righteous to the nth degree. He was the Senator McCarthy of 16th Century London. IMO No man deserved to be judicially murdered because of his peculiar conscience more than Thomas More who had murdered many men for obeying their own consciences. In your research you seem to have missed a few facts. I grew up with a family-proud mother whose ancestors were variously tortured changed, toasted, disemboweled in several different countries (John Knox, and followers of Luther and Huss). I loved to read Foxe's Martyrs, especially Cranmer holding his hand in the flames. My mother was not very religious, but she hated the Pope (any pope), Mary, and especially Thomas More. She never appreciated my remarks about the overconscientiousness of her ancestors. She was merciless toward More. I agree that he deserved no more mercy than any murderer just because of his religious delusions. Here's something you may have missed: luminarium.org