I was about to say “Oliver Cromwell�
I was annoying an Irish Catholic communist friend of mine the other day by insisting that she had a Protestant work ethic (she insisted on paying for her own drinks, you see). After objecting that she didn’t have a work ethic, she then said, “And don’t call me a Protestant; how would you like it if someone called you a Protestant?� A telling point, and it took me a while to come up with a response. Eventually, it occoured to me that there are some Protestants I wouldn’t mind at all being called, of whom I mentioned Milton and Winstanley. And a fairly significant argument was avoided in choosing those Civil War heroes…
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