Jeez, Vladimir. What are you doing citing a Catholic equivalent of Jack Chick? What possible purpose could it serve?
Granting, arguendo, that Calvin was homosexual, that does not prove anything. That has absolutely no bearing on the veracity of the exposition in the Institutes any more than the recent child-abuse crisis in Roman Catholicism discredits the Magesterium. It was nothing more than a cheap shot coming from inside a glass house.
If you want to play dirty, we Protestants can find plenty of ammunition in the Catholic Church, from John Tetzel's flagrant abuse of indulgences to the recent child abuse coverups. Personally, I'd prefer to keep this civilized and keep a dialogue open.
Even to "grant" that statement in argument is to imply that all children who are sodomized are sodomites.
Such deceitful muck is where they want to place the debate.
This thread must have really made them very agitated.
Re: Indulgences, it didn't stop with Tetzel.
"In 1988, John Paul II issued a document calling the faithful to obtain plenary indulgences (offered every 25 years) in the jubilee year of the Church in 2000, which caused the World Alliance of Reformed Churches to pull out of the jubilee celebrations in Rome..."
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Thanks for the strong defense of the faith! You had best always work for the persecution.
This is simply mud slinging lies attempting to discredit a man of God.
The pot calls the kettle black and hopes that by smearing its own filth on others theirs is less an issue.
Sorry that dog does not hunt.