Oilver Cromwell

[Democratic Hawk]

I don't usually like these polls, but this guy is worthy of debate

I, of course, vote Horrible Person. He was a puritanical intolerant, a perpetator of regicide (yes, he was supposedly a Christian yet he santioned the execution of a God-annointed king), who brutally suppressed those who stood in his way. Not to mention his acts against the Irish

I reckon even modern-day leftists would have fought for their King against this tyrant

A thoroughly Horrible Person (both inside and out!)

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

Cromwell ... tolerated every sect of Christianity except Roman Catholicism.

There you have it, an intolerant

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

Fair enough, he seems he wasn't quite the doctrinaire Calvinist that I thought, and his disdain for Roman Catholicism stemmed from Catholic rulers in their persecution of Protestants. The one Catholic monarch, I believe, who did allow freedom of worship was Mary, Queen of Scots

I still believe that kingly authority is God-ordained and, thus, can't condone regicide. Still, what goes around comes around and Cromwell was posthumously executed

I think you can probably gather I am a royalist

Dave