To: RobbyS; drstevej
Luther's career after Worms was more that of the partisan leader than the prophet since his volleys were fired from behind high walls.The Catholics hate him because he lived to begin a revolution.I am sorry you guys did not have an opportunity to burn him at the stake
To: RnMomof7
Richard Marius, a recent Luther biographer, Harvard professor and no Catholic, said that as much as he liked and admired Martin, We have to consider the possibility that if he had suffered the fate of Hus that Europe might have been spared more than one hundred years of religious warfare.
104 posted on
11/03/2002 3:13:12 PM PST by
RobbyS
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