To: Dr. Eckleburg
Actually, Dr. E, if you read the motives and the reasons behind the flocking of the German, and then the English and other European nobles to the Reformation was power, pure and simple.
They wanted local control bereft of what they saw as an interfering temporal ruler in Rome.
4,176 posted on
08/25/2007 1:58:02 PM PDT by
MarkBsnr
(V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
To: MarkBsnr; Dr. Eckleburg
Actually, Dr. E, if you read the motives and the reasons behind the flocking of the German, and then the English and other European nobles to the Reformation was power, pure and simple Given that the Reformed theology "empowers" the self-appointed "elect," that is ti s a man-made rleigion that appeals to human vanity and arrogancy, it is a real miracle that all of Christianity was not consumed by this evil, which is all about arrogated self-righteousness, power and lawyering, and none about love.
4,182 posted on
08/25/2007 2:12:42 PM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: MarkBsnr
I wouldn’t expect you to rationalize it any other way. The numbers of slaughtered, however, speak for themselves.
4,184 posted on
08/25/2007 2:20:00 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: MarkBsnr
Power and the wealth in the monasteries.
Remember that 300 years earlier, the French King had done the same thing to the Knights Templar.
4,498 posted on
08/27/2007 2:24:12 AM PDT by
Cronos
("Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, CAIR)
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