(emphasis added):
'My loving people, we have been persuaded by some, that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear; I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects. And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honor and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realms: to which, rather than any dishonor should grow by me, I myself will take up arms; I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already, by your forwardness, that you have deserved rewards and crowns; and we do assure you, on the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you. In the mean my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble and worthy subject; not doubting by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and by your valor in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over the enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.'
-Queen Elizabeth I, her speech to her troops at Tilbury (against the Spanish Armada), 1588.
Pop quiz, hotshot: Who won said England vs. Spain battle (essentially Protestant vs. Catholic; Queen Elizabeth I - head of the Church of England - vs. Pope Sixtus V - who authorised Philip II of Spain's privateering, nay, ultimate invasion of Britain)?
Your argument is not only invalid; not just blown out of the water like a Spanish warship, and out of the space-time continuum itself, Queen Elizabeth I has resurrected, and is tearing out your pathetic heart (along with the rest of your eviscerated self) and devouring it like the blood-aroused predatory lioness she is.
Moral: History education. Get one.
