Posted on 05/17/2024 4:42:14 AM PDT by SJackson
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Protestants will never understand how this sentence makes Catholic eyes roll: “Among other things, the Catholic clergy, in their arrogance, claimed to possess the power to sell salvation itself in the form of “indulgences” – a practice that Horowitz rightly condemns as an “unholy scam.””
Selling indulgences had already been strictly, absolutely, unequivocally, universally condemned by the Catholic Church. I don’t mean to whitewash the Church — I think what really set Luther off was predatory homosexuality which likely existed in his seminary. Anyone who thinks this is a new problem should know that the majority of people sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition were sentenced for homosexual abuse within the clergy.
What I can’t stand is the deification of one of the world’s most evil men of all time, Martin Luther. He was the very mouthpiece of Satan, who yes, does use sin to separate us from God and each other. Luther’s insistence that the efficacy of a sacrament depends on the sanctity of the clergy is without a doubt the greatest profanation since the Crucifixion itself.
Luther’s inspiration to the Nazis isn’t just some late-in-life faux pas; he was absolutely, wickedly, insanely bent AGAINST the notion that all men are created equal, and
believed the elites should see the commoner as wretches who DESERVE to die as cannon-fodder, whether Catholic or Reformed.
Even in Hitler’s or Stalin’s writings, you get the sense that the commoner is some pathetic victim whose passing is a sacrifice to a greater cause, but Luther saw the suffering and death of the millions of soldiers whose suffering he caused as a deserved fate and whose deaths he caused as an improvement.
Nor There is any reason for any serious historian to expect any sincerity in Luther’s writings. When the Muslims threat was distant, he deadened princes’ consciences with claims that it was God Himself who ordained the Muslims to kill and torture their Catholic victims; Don’t waste your fortunes, he told the princes, but enjoy your whores instead! But when Muslims encroached on Germany, then he decided that Mohammed was a demon. Such was the scandal that to this day, this is why any land threatened by Mohammed, including the South of Germany, is Catholic whereas Protestantism is found only in the areas remote from Islam’s threat, places like Scandinavia, Britain, the North of Germany, the lowlands. The Princes would neither forgive, nor forget the treachery.
“Among other things, the Catholic clergy, in their arrogance, claimed to possess the power to sell salvation itself in the form of “indulgences” – a practice that Horowitz rightly condemns as an “unholy scam.””
Indulgences - at least those actually authorized by the Church - did not, nor could not, “sell salvation”.
I really wish people who would write about these things would research them first rather than believing the created myths.
"Now go forth, and vanquish the commies." pic.twitter.com/MO0Rs67fci— Haikus From Underground (@HaikusFromUnder) May 17, 2024
Probably could have found a better example. I'd take issue with the word created in the headline as well. Neither of which negates the thrust of the article which is the left's attempt of the destruction of American culture and character.
I want to know more about this, I have always kind of suspected exactly what you are saying.
BTTT
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Re” “Slavery still exists today – not in any majority-white country”
It exists here in the U.S.A., too. It is illegal but it exists. Slavery in our nation is crossing our southern border every day.
My husband and I recently took a one-week road trip through 3 states. At every rest stop, there were posters where slaves ( the abducted) could call for help.
puhleeze.... do you ever wonder how the Kennedys have had all their marriages "annulled" hahahahahaha... or how the pederasts and manipulators have tried to destroy the Roman Catholic Church....
We have a communist homosexual as a pope and everything is just peachy in Rome.
I am a Catholic and would not mind if Rome was visited by the Visigoths again. I believe it's called "creative destruction".
The Vatican has more land and wealth than most countries but still shills for cash and is used by communists as a front to manipulate governments.
Bttt.
5.56mm
I’ve heard that the Catholic Church inherited the Roman Empire. England is an exception which wouldn’t have flipped if Henry VIII had a healthy son early on.
I suppose Poland is an exception too? The lecture I heard didn’t explain that one.
Suggested reading: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1902/medieval-indulgence--martin-luther/
Looking back to the institution of Roman catholicism by Emperors Constantine and successors (emperors and kings of European & Mideast natinns) os the organ of state religion, i see that murderous domination of Western culture as simply a state-run form of religious slavery supported by the feudal systen from which the Founders of the United States of America freed us.
review
Luther was the 16th Century equivalent of the alt-right types of our time like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson, who see a highly corrupt institution, in their case the U.S. government and cultural institutions, and see Russia and even China as being the scourge of God sent providentially to defeat that institution. You even have traditional Catholics like E. Michael Jones, who sees Protestantism as satanic, and Nick Fuentes supporting the Russia-China-Iran axis.
Good article
Thanks for posting
“ Indulgences - at least those actually authorized by the Church - did not, nor could not, “sell salvation”.
That’s right. Of course they couldn’t.
“ really wish people who would write about these things would research them first rather than believing the created myths.”
Did you read it? It said claimed.
“claimed to possess the power to sell salvation”
When the Catholic Church inherited Rome, Rome was mostly pagan. In order to bring pagans into the church the Vatican adopted many pagan practices and beliefs. Such as goddess worship and idol worship.
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