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Good! Then, according to you and others of your ilk here, you must accept everything he said!

Dear boatbums. That does not follow logically at all. Polemicists routinely cite statements from their opponents that are favorable to their argument without incurring any moral obligation to accept all of the oddities and heresies and evil of their opponents that they cited.

You have very odd ideas but you, contrary to what the malevolent mad man, Luther, averred, have Free Will and you can say and do as you please.

As to your source, I find it amusing not authoritative. You first cited it when it had not one thing to do with a quote I posted but you cited it with what seemed a sense of triumph; Take that, Vermont Crank

That site specialises in gainsaying every thing any Catholic source documents as the mad man saying or doing.

A a man with Free Will, you have leave to pursue and believe every risible claim that cite makes but you wildly err in thinking that source is authoritative or normative. What is clear is that your defense of the Heresiarch reveals that he is your moral and doctrinal progenitor but, were I you, as an adult, I'd rhetorically declare emancipation from such an obviously inane and abusive Father.

Dear Vermont Crank, you should actually READ the posts people take time to compose and then also ponder at least a few moments as to their reference. Another of your religion had suggested that someone, who quoted from Augustine, should then be willing to also accept everything ELSE Augustine said. THAT was my point. Not, as you presume, is my logical conclusion. It's NOT...by the way.

Once again you prove you do exactly as I stated in smearing by association (no matter how slight or antiquated) all those who may (or may not) have come after a certain "Reformer". I had already said I was not a Lutheran, I don't follow any men as my "Pope" and I reject the bigoted and hostile denigration of a man, who history as well as his own writings, prove to be no such person as you ignorantly attest. You prefer writings from Catholic sources only, who obviously have skin in the game to portray men such as Luther in the most audacious and malevolent ways so as to detract from what he taught that truthfully described the degeneracy and depravity of the Roman Catholic Church of his day.

I have been reading an online version of Luther's letters and in them he describes the blatant unChristian manner in which he was treated from the very start of his posting his concerns over the misuse and abuse of indulgences. It is quite eye-opening and if you are in any way genuinely interested in knowing ALL sides to the issue, I'd be happy to point you to them so you might speak in the future more kindly and knowingly about events that happened five centuries ago. You have a free will and aren't duty-bound to the version Rome puts forth, aren't you? Perhaps it is you who needs the emancipation?