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To: fortheDeclaration; HarleyD; Forest Keeper; wmfights; blue-duncan; 1000 silverlings; P-Marlowe; ...
I would like to remind you that no Protestants killed Orthodox followers, but Rome did.

Christians may speak bluntly, but we have never waged war on your faith.

Rome has waged war on us both, yet your hatred is so great for Justification by faith alone that you would side with those who killed Orthodox followers, (who believe in a works system of salvation, as you do), in attacking Christians.

These valid points have been illustrated on this and other threads, much to the surprise of most of the Protestants here.

But we can be assured...

"But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common." -- Acts 11:9

13,959 posted on 05/04/2007 10:35:00 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
These valid points have been illustrated on this and other threads, much to the surprise of most of the Protestants here.

Point worth noting, from a thread I just posted...

...as Natalie Zemon Davis pointed out 30 years ago, there is a clear qualitative difference between the violence of Calvinists and Catholics. France’s Calvinists hoped to change the mind of the majority population; for them, Catholicism’s sacred objects and leaders were the problem, because (as the Huguenots saw it) they misled the masses. And so Calvinists destroyed the host, icons and relics, to show that they were not imbued with divine power, and killed priests, because they were perceived to be leading the people astray. However, for French Roman Catholics, it was Calvinists themselves that were the problem. Killing Huguenots purged the country of what was perceived as pollution, or a cancer of the body politic, and was the first step toward recovering divine favor. This is why 3,000 Huguenots could be killed in Paris in 24 hours on 24 August 1572—a chilling parallel to the 3,000 killed in New York on 11 September 2001. With the smaller populations back then it was clearly an even more terrorizing moment in history.

13,969 posted on 05/04/2007 12:32:11 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
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