[RegulatorCountry]

If vlad were merely defending his church I wouldn’t even enter the discussion, but it’s always got to be slagging on Luther, then they turn around and love him the next day, regarding Mary or some other vestige of Luther’s monastic training. It’s a weird sort of love-hate dichotomy with Roman Catholics regarding Luther. I’ve speculated that it has something to do with moon phases, but I honestly can’t say for certain.

[ealgeone]

For sure...when Mary comes up Luther goes back on the good list.

It does seem to depend on the discussion with our Catholic friends as to the status of Luther.

That Luther must have hit a sore spot is evidenced by the Counter-Reformation. Hence, there was, and still is, much wrong with the RCC.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I think the Catholic love-hate thing with Luther comes from different commentators remarking on different aspects of Luther's complexities in different contexts, at different times.

Phases of the moon may figure into it. I understand they sometime correlate with such things as estrogen, cortisol and serotonin levels and mood, especially for us blessed Christians of the feminine persuasion.

[vladimir998]

“If vlad were merely defending his church I wouldn’t even enter the discussion, but it’s always got to be slagging on Luther...”

I didn’t post the thread - which is ABOUT Protestants talking about Luther and whether he was or was not an anti-semite.

Maybe you should ask yourself why you think it so strange that someone would post about Luther in a thread about Luther? Why, in a thread about Luther, did you feel compelled to bring up the Catholic Church? It seems that you are the one who has to “slag” on something and you keep doing it even in threads not really about it. Why is that?

In a thread about Luther, I posted about Luther. That apparently bothers you. Get over it.