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To: RegulatorCountry
" Nothing you’ve posted negates my statement, that anti-Semitism didn’t just fall out of the sky when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg."

My point wasn't that antisemitism was absent within all of Europe, protestant and Catholic alike. It was an ugly stain on mankind. My point was that there was noting just, special, or holy about Luther that would justify the claims of divine authority to revise or reject Scripture. He was just another flawed "holy" man who exploited the faithful for self advancement and not much different than an early day Jimmy Swaggart.

1,145 posted on 04/24/2010 10:34:16 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

The Catholic Church in Luther’s time was highly corrupt and he attempted to reform it. Whether one agrees with his methods or not, whether one agrees with his theology or not, and whether one deems him “worthy” or not, that fact remains.

The omnipresent anti-Semitism of the time and place is not an issue that is beneficial for you as a Catholic to expound upon. There was going on several centuries worth of church precedent in that regard from which Luther learned, and it was ongoing prior to the time of his birth up to the point at which he broke with the church, and even afterwards.

That is what I am hoping to impart to you, here. Calling him an anti-Semite is the pot calling the kettle black. Maybe you should step back from that and revert to the trusty old “heretic,” since it’s been such a versatile and profitable calumny in the past.


1,150 posted on 04/24/2010 10:50:27 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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