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Posted on 06/28/2017 9:04:53 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
“I’m not even clicking on your link, because it’s about Spain. We are discussing the nature of the U.S.”
I imagine that you also refuse to discuss Great Britain when the topic of American independence comes up.
Nonsense. Great Britain is relevant.
“Again. I am puzzled by those who feel the need to denigrate another’s beliefs”
Again. I am not puzzled by those who feel the need to say things that are contradictions to sound thinking.
You said Luther was not a heretic. The Church judged him to be so. Either he was or he wasn’t. If he wasn’t, then all of Christendom before him (even many other heretics who were heretics for OTHER REASONS) must be the heretics. Now, is it denigrating to anyone to say that? No, it’s just logic. Yet you insisted - with no logical support - that Luther was not a heretic. . . which means you’re saying the Church that decided he was a heretic is actually the heretic according to your logic. Is that denigrating to that Church? By your standards, it must be.
There must be truth. The truth is not denigrating. It just IS truth.
Spain is relevant, too. It’s an example of a Catholic majority country that had and still has stringent laws against blaspheming the Catholic church.
Every Catholic majority country had such laws at the time the US Constitution was ratified.
That the US never had any Constitutional authority for blasphemy laws speaks to the nation being, at least at the time, a Protestant majority nation.
Sorry hun. Protestant heresy does not spring forth from Jesus.
You seem to not want to post in the Religion Forum anymore.
Digs at management and moderators indicate you are not happy being here.
Keep posting false accusations against Free Republic and you will be gone.
Any other posts outside the guidelines will cause that to happen also.
Considering the corruption and sin of the Catholic Church in Luthers time and the efforts to keep the scripture from people I tend to side with Luther
I will not discuss this further with you. You obviously are a roman. So be it. That won’t get you to heaven
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