[Campion]

I see no mention of Catholics burning Protestants at the stake, cutting the stomachs of pregnant Protestant women and ripping out the babies while the mother was still alive

You mean like St. Margaret Clitherow, a pregnant lady crushed to death under rocks for the "crime" of concealing a priest?

As I understand it, the violent actions of the Protestants was in response to the murderous, heineous crimes perpetrated by the Catholics in England and throughout Europe AND in the period known as the dark ages; 500-1500 A.D. where the Catholic church murdered anything that moved that wouldn't bow down to the pope...

Is this that famous principle of Christian morality that two wrongs make a right?

You've heard one side of the story. Now you have the other. Neither side was very pretty.

[redgolum]

Ladies and gentleman.

It is Lent. Not really the right time to start or engage in dirt throwing matches.

As for the religious wars of the Reformation, I have yet to find an "innocent" side in them. The upper German elector princes were more concerned with the politics of the Holy Roman Empire than any theology. They used Luther to achieve that goal. Likewise, the Papacy of the time was more angry with the princes (at first) than with Luther.

Politics, more than theology, was the driving force.

Having said that, these circular firing squads accomplish little other than taking our eyes off Christ on turning to our own selves.

[muawiyah]

And both of you guys are confounding the so-called "Religious Wars" in France (which occurred between two royal factions) with the Inquisition.

My own French ancestors LOST the Religious Wars, but escaped to America.

[stands2reason]

Is this that famous principle of Christian morality that two wrongs make a right?

Yeah, didn't Jesus say "an eye for an eye"?

;-)