Posted on 04/19/2015 4:33:33 PM PDT by Steelfish
The Protestant Inquisition: "Reformation" Intolerance and Persecution
Disclaimer and statement of intent: Unfortunately, the religious "scandal score" needs to be evened up now and then, and the lesser-known "skeletons in the closet" need to be rescued from obscurity, surveyed, and exposed. I take no pleasure in "dredging up" these unsavory occurrences, but it is necessary for honest, fair historical appraisal. This does not mean that I have forsaken ecumenism, or that I wish to bash Protestants, or that I deny corresponding Catholic shortcomings.
Historical facts are what they are, and most Protestants (and Catholics) are unaware of the following historical events and beliefs (while, on the other hand, one always hears about the embarrassing and scandalous Catholic stuff -- and not often very accurately or fairly at that). If (as I suspect might often be the case) readers are shocked or surprised by the very title of this paper, this would be a case in point, and justification enough for my purposes of education. With that end and stated outlook in mind, I offer this copiously-researched treatise, with all due respect to my Protestant brethren, yet not without some remaining trepidation.
What treatise? All you did was pimp a blog.
Nope. Not gonna do it. I ain’t gonna click for a blogpimp.
OK, some witches were burned at the stake, a few were drowned, a queen or two maybe beheaded. To quote the next President of the US, “what difference does it make?!”
Sorry, I can’t reproduce the screech, but if something doesn’t matter after only a year or two, surely after three hundred years and more a few religious tortures and executions don’t matter.
But she turned me into a newt!
“A newt?”
I got better.
Not only blog pimping but trolling for a fight while denying you want to fight.
Burn her anyway!
Burn ‘er!
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
Build a bridge out of her!
(you jumped ahead lol)
A Newt? So now you'll be sitting down with Nancy Pelosi and endorsing Dede Scozzafava!
“the religious “scandal score” needs to be evened up now and then, and the lesser-known “skeletons in the closet” need to be rescued from obscurity, surveyed, and exposed.”
Premise is false.....I don’t bother with gotchas
I have read many articles stating that up to 90% of the Christian religious art in the world was destroyed by the Revolutionists....Icons, stained glass windows, paintings, whatever...were maliciously destroyed (kind of like isis is doing now)....what a history
First Known Use of REVOLUTIONIST
1710
I have NO idea what you are speaking of....are you trying to say that there was a period in history known as an anti-cleric period?
Please cite even one of your articles
I use it all the time...a much more accurate description that reformer
Reformation is from within, revolution is creating your own, many times erroneous concept, of what was the original organization.
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