“St. Thomas Moore’s pointed speech certainly had less solipsisteic reasoning behind them. It is how the epithets are employed, and the lack of foundation for them that makes it petty compared to a St. Thomas Moore.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So it is OK for a Catholic to be a horse’s butt, and even to torture and execute Protestants, but it is not OK for a Protestant to be a horse’s butt who does not kill Catholics!
When More wrote that Tyndale was no longer a “heretic swollen with pride”, but had become “a beast discharging filthy foam of blasphemies out of his brutish beastly mouth “- a “railing ribald” - a “drowsy drudge that has drunken deep in the devil’s dregs” and so on...saintly Sir Thomas More was just being “pointed”, eh?
Marius wrote in his biography of More: “To stand before a man at an inquisition, knowing that he will rejoice when we die, knowing that he will commit us to the stake and its horrors without a moment’s hesitation or remorse if we do not satisfy him, is not an experience much less cruel because our inquisitor does not whip us or rack us or shout at us. . . More believed that they (Protestants) should be exterminated, and while he was in office he did everything in his power to bring that extermination to pass.”
But Luther was rotten because he called Catholic bishops names....hmmmm...
Next will be Luther's exasperated vituperation against Jews, who provoked his spirit so that he ended up speaking rashly and wrongly with his pen, resulting in harsh treatment, as if popes did not to such and worse at times.