With Varied Thought Comes Varied Opposition

In a time of terror, people need assurance from their political leaders about their security and future. In King James’ case, what he had to do was to unite England’s different religious beliefs through a common text. “needed a version of the scriptures that would bind together its people, its church and its king.” –Pg. 107 In this chapter, we can also see that King James’s ideals and thoughts were completely genuine and accepting in what had to do with different religions and beliefs. “‘I will never allow in my conscience’, he had written to Cecil, ‘that the blood of any man shall be shed for diversity of opinions in religion.’” –Pg. 108 King James was very different from other current political leaders which completely destroy and devastate a region because of an attack to a country’s security.

I also think that this chapter tries to show the effect a terrible event, attempting against a nation’s security, has on its government. Some people just need a problem to make it the event of the century, because their main goal is to harm and look at the bad side of things, taking revenge as their only weapon but others are able to resolve problems through words and intelligent ideas which in my opinion are more valuable than aggressiveness and mass destruction. In that time in England we can also see a classical response to this type of situation, harming a specific person to cause terror in the nation, therefore making it an escalating “eye for an eye” situation, that will never end. King James had just the right wisdom to de-escalate violence by using logic, serenity and reason. Even though he didn’t want any innocent people dying for unjustified causes, the nation’s decision lied in the judges hands. “because, quite clearly, this was a good man killed for no good reason.” –Pg. 116 People all over the world have died because of unjustified causes which has always been one of humanities main problems, learning how to listen, appreciate and understand another’s culture and ideas.