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To: IronJack
I don't see any "persecution" of Jews, pagans, or Christians by other Christians.

Because Christians don't hold unlimited power anymore, at least since Charles Taylor was deposed.

And your zeal is corroding your credibility:

Looking up ill-informed tourist guides now?

"Heiliggeistkirche" means "Holy Ghost Church." It is not a cathedral, but a church. The German word for cathedral is "Dom." No German says "Dom Heiliggeist" or "Heidelberger Dom." Martin Luther defended his theses in Heidelberg at the Augustinian conference, but it wasn't in any cathedral. My best bet would be that he did it at the university.

You do not know who you are messing with. Do NOT deign to teach me, who LIVED IN HEIDELBERG FOR TEN YEARS, anything about Heidelberg.

BTW, the best view of the town is from across the river from the Heiligenberg, just below the kloster ruins and the old Nazi amphitheater. If you're up for the exercise, walk the Philosophenweg up.

Hate displaces reason.

Google does not replace experience.

I'm so humbled by your brilliant rebuttal that I swear to subsist from here onward on a Diet of Worms.

Ah, you did your research and now know about the Reichstag. That would mean I'm talking about St. Peter's Cathedral, "Dom St. Peter" in German, or more commonly just the "Wormser Dom."

305 posted on 08/16/2005 8:59:57 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Are you listening to yourself? You're reduced to quibbling over minutiae. Is the cathedral in Heidelberg a "church" or a "cathedral?" Did Luther "officially" defend his Theses in Wittemberg or did he just post them and run? Was the Augustinian Council a "defense" or merely an "apologia"?

Does it occur to you that I intentionally excluded the Diet of Worms, since it was so obviously what you were looking for, and to demonstrate that your narrow view of history does not allow you to think outside your own preconceptions? In any case, it would be unlikely that I would be familiar with Luther and not know about Worms.

Your credibility is such that I would trust a matchbook cover for its geographic lessons before I would trust you. I don't care if you were mayor of Casterbridge for half a century.

306 posted on 08/17/2005 4:57:19 AM PDT by IronJack
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