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To: vladimir998
Vlad, you were the one who started this Papist-Prod food fight with a pointless, gratuitous insult to Presbyterians, and by extension, all Protestants. As far as I am concerned, both sides in that era behaved little better than the Communists and the Nazis in the last century, or the Islamist extremists of our time. Making excuses for the atrocities on either side is on the level of the Holocaust denial of anti-Semites or ignoring the concentration camps and mass murder committed by the Communists on the part of liberals.

Calling the Reformation a Revolution is equivalent to the liberals renaming A.D. and B.C. as CE and BCE. In other words, a "rad trad" Catholic version of political correctness.

78 posted on 12/20/2006 10:26:08 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

I pointed out a historical fact: Presbyterians were iconoclasts in the 16th and 17th centuries. That is irrefutable.

You wrote: "Vlad, you were the one who started this Papist-Prod food fight with a pointless, gratuitous insult to Presbyterians, and by extension, all Protestants."

The truth is insulting to Protestants? You might be right about that! LOL!!!

"As far as I am concerned, both sides in that era behaved little better than the Communists and the Nazis in the last century, or the Islamist extremists of our time."

Nonsense. Neither side really deserves such a ridiculous comparison.

"Making excuses for the atrocities on either side is on the level of the Holocaust denial of anti-Semites or ignoring the concentration camps and mass murder committed by the Communists on the part of liberals."

Thank goodness I never made such excuses.

"Calling the Reformation a Revolution is equivalent to the liberals renaming A.D. and B.C. as CE and BCE. In other words, a "rad trad" Catholic version of political correctness."

Again, nonsense. The Protestants overthrew regimes, squelched opposition, seized property, books, imposed new and unheard of laws, slaughtered their enemies in many cases, suppressed languages and cultures while raising up and championing others, etc. All of this is indisputable. That's what many revolutions do. That's what the Protestant Revolution did. Don't like it? Too bad. It's all true.


80 posted on 12/20/2006 12:42:50 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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