LOL..you can espouse any doctrine you want..but it is ludicrous to think politics within the Roman Church had no bearing on what happened to Martin Luther. Lord Have Mercy...his acts fractured the Church. THAT IS POLITICS> YOU PICKED A SIDE
“THAT IS POLITICS> YOU PICKED A SIDE”
Picking a side does not make it politics. If you play a sport, you must choose a team. Is it then politics? If your husband beats you and you oppose him (you’ve chosen a side), it is politics then? If a teachers tells his students, “2 + 2 = 5” and his students object (they’ve chosen sides), is it really politics?
Let me understand you. You say that the Church’s response to Luther was politics. But were Luther’s own actions (and Calvin, and John Knox, etc., etc., etc.) also nothing but politics?
No you can't. Not in Catholicism.
but it is ludicrous to think politics within the Roman Church had no bearing on what happened to Martin Luther.
Only if one subscribes to your idiotic definition of "politics" as the taking of any contrary position in any disputation.