18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Re: Henri IV and conversion

[cahn]

But now that my subjects seem inclined to peace, [translation: the Catholic League, led by the Guises, are about to elect a king that isn't me] I have the leisure to learn more about this faith that I've always been extremely interested in.


Lol!

but commandment number ONE is 'thou shalt have no other gods before me,' and a Protestant king who's only pretending to be Catholic for the sake of power clearly has gods before the one true God. And one comes before five. So in conclusion, my son, God will not only forgive you for regicide, but he fully expects you to commit regicide in his name. P.S. Don't forget this is a holy war and your soul is at stake. Godspeed."


Wow, that is... impressive.

"Sire, the Catholic party in France as well as our Catholic neighbors are against you, and all you've got is a miserable few Huguenots. Now, I wouldn't dare say this to you if you were the sincerely religious type. But you live in good fellowship with us Catholics, which means we can't suspect that you're driven strictly by your conscience."

Heh. I like that.