Some people stand this day against so many old [church] fathers, so many [church] doctors, so many examples of the primitive church, so manifest and so plain words of the holy scriptures; and yet have they herein not one father, not one doctor, not one allowed example of the primitive church, to make for them…Of all the words of holy scriptures, of all the examples of the primitive church, of all the old fathers, of all the ancient doctors, in these causes they have not one.

—John Jewel, Challenge Sermon

It seems some ways things haven’t changed very much from the 16th century, at least in terms of some who try to create a brave new world.