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To: TArcher

Careful about the self-righteous enlightenment baloney. It’s kid stuff from a historical point of view, and proponents of it have been no strangers to corruption and sexual politics.

This too shall pass.


32 posted on 03/01/2013 3:02:09 AM PST by michigancatholic
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To: michigancatholic
>>It’s kid stuff from a historical point of view,

"1] Good men can easily judge that it is of the greatest importance that the true doctrine concerning the above‐mentioned parts, namely contrition and faith, be preserved. [For the great fraud of indulgences, etc., and the preposterous doctrines of the sophists have sufficiently taught us what great vexation and danger arise therefrom if a foul stroke is here made."
www.lcms.org/Document.fdoc?src=lcm&id=957


"For the gread FRAUD of indulgences"

What does this mean?
 
NO SALE.

37 posted on 03/01/2013 6:25:58 AM PST by TArcher
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