How was religion used to justify the Civil War?

Religion was used by both sides to help justify their involvement and actions in the Civil War, and in a broad sense the war can be seen as a war of true religion in conflict against popery. (Reay) In these times, religion and politics were inseparable so it was difficult to imagine a conflict where one or the other was not a major factor. Parliamentarians A Puritan Revolution (S.R. Gardiner Wanted: o Radical reform of Elizabethan Settlement o A society influenced by godly values (Morrill) 1641 900 petitions against scandalous ministers Often went hand in hand with constitutional parliamentarianism(Coward) Anti-Catholicism and the popish plot o Parliaments propaganda related every royal action between January and November 1642 to the papist conspiracy (Thomas Stockdale, contemporary observer) o Papists were providing Charles with the money he needed claims that by July 1642 he had already received 80,000 in this manner o Hemrietta Maria o George Con Charles role as the tyrannous Anti-Christ o Personal Rule (1629-1640) The Removal of innovations o God hath put the sword of reformation into the soldiers hand o Decoration o Root and Branch petitions 1640 Charles direct challenge to many in Parliament Charles packing of the Church o Neile as Archbishop of York in 1632 o Laud as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633 Validation of rebellion in cultural terms (William Hunt) Royalists Believed that Puritans were seditious and a danger to the monarchy Protection of the traditional Church o Character of Charles A visible Church, radically different from that implied by Calvinist orthodoxy (Coward) Charles right to not call Parliament Believed they had reformed far enough Belief that control of the people was done through the pulpit Scottish rebellion Reading The Stuart Age, Barry Coward The Outbreak of the Civil War, Anthony Fletcher Reactions to the Civil War, John Morrill The Causes of the Civil War, Ann Hughes The World turned Upside Down, Christopher Hill Puritan Rule and the failure of Cultural Revolution, Christopher Durston