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To: Dr. Eckleburg
"Your slander is incorrect. Luther approved of and admired Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion," and believed the reforms which he set into motion were in good hands with John Calvin in Geneva."

Oh really? They were chums? Are you a Lutheran then? You agree with Luther on everything?

"Calvin called Luther "my much respected father who has denounced the darkness of the papacy" and a "great miracle of God."

Lutherans and Calvinists came to oppose and even hate each other. "Calvin couldn't comprehend why he, of all people, was assaulted by Lutherans, unless it be that "Satan, whose vile slaves they are, so much the more urges them on against me as he sees my labors more useful to the Church than theirs." (112;v.1:335) Whoever blushed at those expressions which Luther's arrogance drew from his pen, will not be less confounded at the excesses of Calvin: his adversaries are always knaves, fools, rogues, drunkards, furies, madmen, beasts, bulls, asses, dogs, swine; and Calvin's fine style is polluted with this filth through every page. Be they Catholics or Lutherans, it is all one to him, he spares none. (112;v.1:335)

144 posted on 07/29/2002 12:17:49 AM PDT by Theresa
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To: Theresa; RnMomof7; drstevej; Wrigley; George W. Bush; Don'tMessWithTexas; Matchett-PI
The catholic church spends most of its time rationalizing the irrational.

When confronted with contradiction, you just make things up.

I checked for the references you keep citing and the only thing that comes up on google is some atrocious site by Dave Armstrong, a "catholic who prefers to call the Reformation a revolt."

He then proceeds to slander the next five centuries of Christian thought. And this is your authority?

As Elaine said to the guy who critcized her large head, "That's the best you got?"

151 posted on 07/29/2002 12:47:33 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: Theresa; Dr. Eckleburg; drstevej
"...adversaries are always knaves, fools, rogues, drunkards, furies, madmen, beasts, bulls, asses, dogs, swine.."

Don't be offended at God. He is always quite blunt in the way he looks at those who reject his sovereignty and embrace a god in their own image. Since God gave his enemies/adversaries over to a debased mind --- the above [incomplete] list merely describes the result that. God describes these inexcusable ones as:

Depraved, suppressors of the truth, lovers of lies, perverts, faithless, greedy, deceitful, heartless, ruthless, arrogant, malicious, murderous, envious, indecent, shameful, inventors of ways to do evil, etc., etc. [Rom.1:18-32]

175 posted on 07/29/2002 6:03:10 AM PDT by Matchett-PI
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