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don't suppose it occurs to you that babbling bizarre inectives about Martin Luther does little to cause anyone to come to your faith

Dear friend, there are a lot more of the followers of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and others who come to my faith than there are those in my faith who come to the followers of them!

Besides, the Church is not measured by numbers and tithes. But, the Orthodox faith is not lacking in either.

Babbling is quoting Bible incessently our of context. Historical facts about Luther's errors are not babble.

Perhaps we do go overboard with chastisement of Martin Luther. However, there are points in which we feel he was in grave error -- namely becoming the person to chop and change the 1200+ year old Scriptures

Perhaps initially all Luther wanted to do was clean up the Church -- well and good -- but he did go overboard (alas, don't we humans do that?). And what he let loose has expanded to be so wrong -- even though the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses aren't Christian Protestants (as Dr. E has correctly pointed out) -- I do say that they were a tertiary outcome of Luther's rebellion

Let's see -- first line Protestant Churches: Lutheran -- Luther's initial distate with the corruption in the Church leds to hm not only breaking away but also adding in wrong theology. Ditto for Calvin, only I'd say Calvin was more knowledgeable that he was in serious error, while luther only gradually moved to it (my own opinion). then, you have the Anglicans, initially a political break-away then becoming a compromise church under Queen Elizabeth I.

Then you have the secondary Protestant groups breaking away from the primary Protestant groups: the Methodists, Wesleyans, Puritans etc.

Then, you have tertiary groups, breaking away from these secondary groups: the Baptists for example (again, no comment on any of the group's devotion to God's word and truth). And you had completely wrong philosophies coming out like the Mormons, J Witnesses, Christian Scientists, unitarians etc.