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To: Lera
as the Lutherans basically did the same to the Anabaptist.

Really, how many Anabaptists did Lutheran clergy slay? Oh that's right, it was the STATE. Go back to your ravings.

3,157 posted on 07/28/2010 7:57:16 PM PDT by xone
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To: xone
"Really, how many Anabaptists did Lutheran clergy slay?"

Ever do any reading on the 100,000+ Protestant peasants killed by the Lutherans in the Peasant Rebellion of 1524 - 1525?

3,165 posted on 07/28/2010 8:14:52 PM PDT by Natural Law (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: xone; Lera

Well, the entire murky wars of religion had a lot of politics playing into it all. The Germanic Princes wanted to break out from the Yoke of the Austrian Emperor, while the Austrian Emperor, the French King and the English King wanted to keep their “divine” rights. The Anabaptists and their later descendents (with whom they did have a nasty falling out), the Baptists didn’t have any state sponsorship as initially they were anarchist and even pacifist (no king or even Lord Protector wants to have subjects that won’t fight for him).


3,241 posted on 07/29/2010 1:52:56 AM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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