To: Rodebrecht
/Also remember how the pope had the knights executed. And how the church was selling crap to peasants and telling them the crap would guarantee them salvation.
5 posted on
06/19/2009 4:04:10 PM PDT by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: mamelukesabre
I know your screen name is likely a reference to the sword of the Marines, but it’s also suitable, because your post reflects a philosophical version of the Mameluke’s barbarity.
6 posted on
06/19/2009 4:07:27 PM PDT by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: mamelukesabre
I’m not going to get into a Catholic-vs-Protestant because it just devolves into silliness. “Your atrocity was worse than mine!” Blah blah blah. This stuff was hundreds of years ago in old Europe. We’re Americans and should be above that.
8 posted on
06/19/2009 4:11:34 PM PDT by
Rodebrecht
(What are you and who do you want?)
To: mamelukesabre; All
And remember, above all, that the refusal of the Huguenots to surrender their firearms at the end of the Religious Wars was remembered by their descendants in America who enshrined that idea in their Constitution as the SECOND AMENDMENT, something even modern Catholics cherish, as they do the FIRST AMENDMENT, and the THIRD AMENDMENT.
BTW, although the Huguenot experience in France certainly inspired the first three amendments, it also served to warn future generations that the entirity of the Bill of Rights is vital to the rights and privileges of any free people.
9 posted on
06/19/2009 4:14:03 PM PDT by
muawiyah
To: mamelukesabre
The Church sold EXACTLY what?
If you mean indulgences, please post your evidence for that. Got any?
36 posted on
06/19/2009 5:52:57 PM PDT by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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