The historical myopia of some who post on the Freeper boards is dumbfounding. English and German Catholics were slaughtered in the MILLIONS by radical Protestants, who used the secular authorities to cover their crimes. Look it up!
English and German Catholics are STILL waiting for the Anglicans and Lutherans to return the churchs, relics, artwork, and real estate that they STOLE from the Catholic Church. And its been CENTURIES since these things were stolen. A truer example of "history is written by the victors" is hard to find.
We are one people. The slaughtering was a two way street & as was pointed out earlier, one must put actions into context of their historic times.
What gave the Catholic Church a rightful claim to ownership of the properties "stolen" by those who chose to remove themselves from the power of Rome? Did they not have any claim to the property, as it had been their ancestors who had "donated" it?
There isn't any myopia going on here. The protestants, in their defense (which you won't see much of from me), at least don't go on every board on the internet and to every paper trying to downplay and lie through their teeth about what they did. In every debate on the subject, it becomes an issue of Catholic apologists finger pointing at protestants that "well they did it too". Which isn't the point. They'll admit it and show they learned from it. You guys still think it a swell idea by and large from viewing these threads, and haven't learnt anything from history at all - much less from scripture.
As far as what you claim was stolen from you, you'll have to take that up with proper authorities.. Assuming you can tell the truth on that issue any better than you have on this one as an organization - or on the matter of fraudulent writings, documents and books, fruadulent relics, etc.
Ever hear the story of the boy that called wolf?