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To: dangus

Luther’s alliance with the Turks?

You really are delusional. You are mixing the words of a single man from the 16th century with the actions of politicians and nations of the 17th.

The “Lutheran” and Muslim alliance to which you refer was nothing of the kind. It was an alliance of Hungary (which claimed to be protestant at the time) and the Ottoman Sultan against Poland. It was a political alliance with religion used a cloak for doing evil. Let me translate, the Hungarian princes coveted land that belonged to the Poles, and were willing to pay off the sultan for some more troops to help them do so. Nothing more and nothing less.

In the same way Catholic France, under the guidance of CARDINAL Richelieu, joined the war against Catholic Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, i.e., took the side of the protestants from 1635 until the end of the war in 1648. So, what do you have to say about that?

If you are going to make assertions about history, at least get your facts straight.

I suppose you think such things aren’t still done today.


137 posted on 02/27/2010 11:05:58 AM PST by Belteshazzar
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To: Belteshazzar

Luther said the Turks were favorable to the Catholics. Within a century, his followers behaved accordingly. And yes, I would plainly agree with the assertion that the French were allied with Protestants against Rome.


170 posted on 02/27/2010 9:17:34 PM PST by dangus (Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
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