And while both are invoked for support, both have things which impugn their character, but which for RCs is more critical, as they are far more leadership-intensive, as seen by the daily posts on the pope for months.
And if Luther has letters were invoked by Nazis, Rome has actions and provided much for antisemitism. But cultic defenders of Rome only see what is in someone else's eye.
In The Popes Against the Jews : The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, historian David Kertzer notes,
“the legislation enacted in the 1930s by the Nazis in their Nuremberg Laws and by the Italian Fascists with their racial laws—which stripped the Jews of their rights as citizens—was modeled on measures that the [Roman Catholic] Church itself had enforced for as long as it was in a position to do so” (9). More in part 5 of a series (1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5, 6 . And see here .
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