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To: Natural Law; IrishCatholic
Do not expect honesty and balance from the anti-Catholics. While they attempt to nibble around the edges of decency with historical innuendo and fabricated quotes and photos they will never address the root of German antisemitism within Luther and Calvin or the willing participation in the holocaust by the German Protestant Church who was rewarded with the Nazi Cabinet Level position of Reichbishop. Nor will they mention that the Nazi party polled 2-3 times higher among Protestants than Catholics in the German elections of the 1930s.

Honesty (forget balance for the moment) demands an accurate presentation of "fact". Let's examine just one of those "facts". "...they will never address the root of German antisemitism within Luther and Calvin"

In fact Anti-semitism was a practice of the Catholic Church from early times. To be fair, various Popes from time to time, attempted to address the problem of anti-semitism. Sadly however the succeeding Popes always returned to anti-semitic practice.

ANTI-SEMITE POPES

The fact is the root of anti=semitism began long before either Luther or Calvin was born.

FACT: Pope Paul IV established a Jewish Ghetto in Rome - 1555.

JEWISH GHETTO'S ESTABLISHED IN 1555 BY POPE PAUL IV

FACT: The Rome Ghetto remained until the Vatican States were defeated in war -1870.

Honesty demands a retraction of the false claim "the root of German antisemitism within Luther and Calvin".

109 posted on 07/08/2010 1:51:33 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: OLD REGGIE
"Honesty demands a retraction of the false claim "the root of German antisemitism within Luther and Calvin".

Honesty demands an acknowledgment of the culpability of the so-called reformers in the inherent antisemitism within the German Protestant Culture still present over 400 years after the schism. This antisemitism lent the Nazi party significant popular support as measured by voting results, party membership and the state sponsored German Protestant Church under Reichbishop Muller.

Honesty demands that problems inherent in human imperfection, whether it be antisemitism or child abuse, be acknowledged as something other than a Catholic problem by the anti-Catholics who preach to each other on FR>

110 posted on 07/08/2010 2:12:31 PM PDT by Natural Law (Catholiphobia is a mental illness.)
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