Koran promises martyrs 72... raisins?!?

Actually, the church's institutional power was broken progressively by translation and distribution of the scriptures into the languages of common people. When people began to read it for themselves they began to see through the power politics of the ecclestiastical elite ruling classes. That is what the reformation was all about.

Ha ha. Good one. What the reformation was all about, especially in the hands of John Calvin, was the unilateral, arbitrary, sweeping aside of Christian theological thought of the preceding centuries and its replacement by Calvin's "This is the way it is because I said so; who is to argue with G-d? If you dispute me, and I know the mind of G-d, then you dispute G-d. So if you do dispute what I say, it just proves that you're reprobate. Ask Michael Servetus--oops, too late! I had him killed to protect my idea of Jesus Christ and the church."

There's some solace in knowing that Atta, et al, are in hell with a bag of raisins.

I'll bet they were grapes when he got there.

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