| This 1551 statue shows Emperor Carlo subduing a naked figure in chains. The naked victim of his Catholic majesty represents Protestants* — |  |
* Christians in those days hadn’t managed to read the New Testament up to Luke vi, 26) — they were still stuck on the parts of the Bible where Jesus rages against abortion, homosexuals, and suggestive cheerleading, and urges his followers to attack their opponents by any means possible… er, if you can find some of these passages in your New Testament, could you let me know? They seem to be somehow missing from my old copy…