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Explain why King Philip II viewed Protestants as heretics and why that view may have met with conflict ?

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For Philip II, he believes that what was good for Spain would also be good for the Catholic Church. He was so devoted to the Church that whoever is against the Church we would want to persecute them. Philip II himself ordered the Spanish bishops at the Council of Trent to insist on no accommodation of Protestants. 
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