Question

In what ways are the religious or political tensions of seventeenth-century England similar to current issues?

Answer 1

The separation of church and state. In the 17th century was the start of Scientific Revolution and secularism. Which gave the arguments to the state about matters where religion should not play a role.  Religion was too powerful that it becomes powerful, giving political decisions which it should not be under its jurisdiction. 

Answer 2

Your answer might include any number of struggles between political and religious groups in your life. For example, you might have touched on struggles between or within national political parties involving hot-button issues such as immigration, same-sex marriage, gun control, or climate change. Questions of individual, state, or federal rights also echo the conflicts of seventeenth-century England. Your answer should include some detail about similarities and/or differences between your place and time and those of this period in English history.