Fairy Queen

When I began reading this story I enjoyed it, in fact I was reading it to my children. I soon realized that the Fairy Queen was not your typical "fairy tale". This was not a story to be read to children, and now that I know the purpose of this allegory, I would prefer not to read it. But alas, I have to.
One just doesn't realize how much the English hated, (hates?) the Catholic Church until you take an English Literature class, (it's really bad). Key phrase; "Edmund Spenser was an avid Nationalist", (Which really means "Catholic Hater").
Maybe this is too simplistic and I'm sure I have said it before; but how can the Catholic Church be the villain in any sense other than She would not allow Henry VIII to divorce? Essentially, the entire core of the Church of England is about a nutty, (an understatement), monarch who threw a major "hissy" fit because he could not get what he wanted, and the Catholic Church has been vilified ever since, (in England at least), for this reason.
Queen Mary was for Mommy and Queen Elizabeth was for Daddy, and Daddy/Elizabeth won. In my opinion, this is not something to be proud of, this history of religion in England. The Reformation according to Martin Luther is another story altogether.
Two things are particularly disturbing to me: Spenser's symbolic references to everything in the story that is evil, being the Catholic Church, i.e., Error's vomiting the "papers" containing the doctrines and dogma of the Church. The second being his belief that the "Whore of Babylon" is also the Catholic Church.
The Whore of Babylon is NOT the Catholic Church. Suffice it to say , the Catholic Church is the one true Church, the Bride of Christ. "So why is the Bride maligned as the Whore? Jesus himself answered the question: "If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household" (Matt. 10:25). "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world . . . the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you" (John 15:18–20). http://www.catholic.com/library/whore_of_babylon.asp
"There is irrefutable evidence in Revelation 17–18 (the chapters Fundamentalists love to quote against the Catholic Church) that proves that it is impossible for the Catholic Church to be the Whore." http://www.catholic.com/library/whore_of_babylon.asp
More about this in my next blog.