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To: kearnyirish2

No. His publication of the Ninety-Five Theses, even after Pope Leo X told him NOT to do it. At that point in human history the Holy Roman Church represented the closest thing to a global government that has ever existed, before or since. It was nearly omnipotent.

Yet he still defied them and struck a blow for freedom.


14 posted on 10/27/2021 10:01:40 AM PDT by abb
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To: abb

While I believe Luther initially had the noblest intentions in reforming the Church, his opposition to the peasants during the Peasants Revolt shows his views on freedom.


19 posted on 10/28/2021 3:03:33 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: abb

“Even by a conservative reckoning,” pointed out to me by an Augustinian. “Of those 95 Lutheran brother M, we have adapted at least 80 some corrections... why do you not admit that you’re in fact a Catholic at heart?”

He made me surrender a smile. He was a great God fearing man... as so many of the Roman catholic brothers and sisters actually are.

The current pope... has a different vibe entirely.


25 posted on 10/28/2021 7:55:00 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (When the bad guys have leverage they use it)
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