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To: OLD REGGIE
Martin Luther died fat and wealthy leading a public life. If the Church or any other elements wanted his life, he was a very easy target. Let's not waffle about loss of secular power. The fact is that neither the Church nor anyone desired enough to assassinate him to make it happen. And assassination was just as big in those days as it is in ours - possibly more so.

This is a repeated claim of yours. Also, you have provided no proof whatsoever. It's about time you did so don't you think?

I posted a picture of his house - a huge five storey mansion of a building that was a former monastery. He received it as a present. He also had farmland and either sharecroppers or tenant farmers that reported to him. If he squandered his wealth during his life - and there is no way that such an enterprise could not generate wealth especially when supplemented by his salaries from full University lecturer and church pastor.

Fact: Martin Luther had powerful protectors. Without those protectors it is likely he'd have been burned and his bones hung on the door at Wittenburg.

Likely? Can you name them?

Fact: Martin Luther left no wealth upon his death.

Not the fault of his circumstances. Landed gentry - with no debts upon assumption of his estates, plus salaries from a great University plus his salary from his church. That put him in the upper 5%, if not the upper 2%. Read your stated Wiki link for confirmation of some of these details.

Pope Paul III Kinda chubby too.

The Popes of the time brought the Reformation down upon the Church. I trust that they have been eternally rewarded in suitable fashion.

7,438 posted on 08/07/2010 3:40:47 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr
Fact: Martin Luther had powerful protectors. Without those protectors it is likely he'd have been burned and his bones hung on the door at Wittenburg.

Likely? Can you name them?

Yes.

Pope Paul III Kinda chubby too.

The Popes of the time brought the Reformation down upon the Church. I trust that they have been eternally rewarded in suitable fashion.

Pope Paul III was the Counter Reformation Pope. Of course his reign was similar to Nancy Pelosi's "draining of the swamp."

7,444 posted on 08/07/2010 4:04:21 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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