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To: pepsionice

>> It’s a curious turn in history...when a 3rd rate priest out in the boonies of Germany...ends up as public enemy number one of the worldly dominating Catholic Church...then he finds a couple of princes in the Worms area of Germany who go with his stance and defend him from threats. The Catholic Church is split at a key point in history...and never really recovers from that split. <<

It’s amazing what a third-rate priest can accomplish by appealing to people’s evil motives. Go ahead, Prince Phillip, cheat on your wife... it’s not a sin. Go ahead, comrades in arms, whore-mongering will lessen your desire to do worse perversions. Go ahead, chevaliers, abandon the defense of civilization; did you not read from Hus that God hates war? Go ahead, kings of the North, why should you pay to kill Muslims in the South? And, of course, all that Church property can be yours!


9 posted on 06/19/2009 10:54:14 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
It’s amazing what a third-rate priest can accomplish by appealing to people’s evil motives.

I believe that was exactly Luther's feelings towards the papacy.

15 posted on 06/20/2009 12:14:47 AM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: dangus
I had been under the impression that the Muslims had not got farther than the gates of Vienna. Do you have a citation that they actually got into Bavaria?


16 posted on 06/20/2009 1:05:21 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: dangus

did you not read from Hus that God hates war?
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Actually God calls Himself “a man of war”

The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name Exodus 15:3

Too bad those ancients would not read the “Jewish” text...


19 posted on 06/20/2009 4:34:40 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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