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THE DEBATE SET OFF BY THIS POST IS UNNECESSARY AND BASED ON A FAULTY TRANSLATION

The poster posted the English translation of this quote, which was made in England in 1879 and is (as I guessed) mangled to make it sound like something relevant to the debate between protestants and Catholics.

Fortunately, the same website they linked has the original Latin:

Damasci sancti Petri Mavimeni, qui, cum diceret Arabibus quibusdam, ad se aegrotum venientibus: “Omnis qui fidem Christianam catholicam non amplectitur, damnatus est, sicut et Mahumet, pseudopropheta vester,” ab illis est necatus.

Note:

1. The quote uses small c catholic (Christianam catholicam), which makes sense because the quote is from before the schism; it’s the same word catholicam we find in the creed;

2. Mavimeni doesn’t say “religion”. He says faith.

So the correct translation is “whoever doesn’t accept the catholic Christian faith” which I’m pretty sure even Martin Luther would agree with.

[Lonely Bull]

Fortunately, the same website they linked has the original Latin:

Damasci sancti Petri Mavimeni, qui, cum diceret Arabibus quibusdam, ad se aegrotum venientibus: “Omnis qui fidem Christianam catholicam non amplectitur, damnatus est, sicut et Mahumet, pseudopropheta vester,” ab illis est necatus.

Thanks for your post: I hadn't thought to look there for the original Latin, even though I was considering looking for it somewhere and was all this time forgetting the most obvious place.

THE DEBATE SET OFF BY THIS POST IS UNNECESSARY

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