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To: ebb tide

“500 years of the Reformation. What is there to celebrate?”

Upshot: link condemns Reformation breaking Catholic unity.
Rebuttal: what good is “unity” when unified around an evil cause? The 95 Theses were sensible questions about indulgences, culminating with to wit “why then does not the Pope sell all and buy everyone out of Purgatory?”


13 posted on 10/31/2017 10:51:16 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: ctdonath2

Do you believe in Purgatory?


14 posted on 10/31/2017 10:54:08 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ctdonath2
Rebuttal: what good is “unity” when unified around an evil cause?

Unity with unrepentant heretics is not a possibility.

19 posted on 10/31/2017 10:58:19 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ctdonath2

Looks like a protest against church at the time.


53 posted on 10/31/2017 12:13:52 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: ctdonath2

Reads like a protest against church corruption at the time.


55 posted on 10/31/2017 12:22:24 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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