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Analyze how religion, as a distinct political interest, played into conflicts leading to the Glorious Revolution?

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King James II was a fanatical Catholic whose overzealous religious beliefs led him to make enemies within his kingdom and alienate himself.

Two years after he was made King, he issued a Declaration of Indulgence in which he abolished the penal laws against Nonconformists and a few months later, he made a decree that another Declaration of Indulgence would be read from the pulpit for two consecutive Sundays which was met by uneasiness by some Bishops who wrote to him, outlining their displeasure but he had them prosecuted for libel.

King James' actions did not sit well with the people who wanted him out and eventually in 1689, he was deposed and replaced by his daughter Mary II and her husband William III.

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