When it is the catholic who should question their own texts.
As an example....from the catholic encyclopedia online regarding the false teaching of the Immaculate Conception:
No direct or categorical and stringent proof of the dogma can be brought forward from Scripture. But the first scriptural passage which contains the promise of the redemption, mentions also the Mother of the Redeemer. The sentence against the first parents was accompanied by the Earliest Gospel ( Proto-evangelium ), which put enmity between the serpent and the woman : "and I will put enmity between thee and the woman and her seed; she (he) shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for her (his) heel" ( Genesis 3:15 ). The translation "she" of the Vulgate is interpretative; it originated after the fourth century, and cannot be defended critically.
http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=6056
“Catholics continue to live under the delusion that everyone not catholic is running around with whatever Luther wrote.”
It’s funny you should make that claim in the same post you post this: “The translation “she” of the Vulgate is interpretative; it originated after the fourth century, and cannot be defended critically.”
After all when one thinks of how Luther twisted the translation of the Bible to serve his own “interpretative” needs, well, you should get the picture. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2801154/posts
And the reason why so many Catholics bring up Luther is simple - he is the father of Protestantism. Any historian can trace back Protestant sects and realize that they didn’t exist before 1517-1520. Sola scriptura, sola fide - these are Luther’s creations. Some Protestants deny that, of course, and even go to ridiculous lengths to establish some sort of historical pedigree for Protestantism (”Trail of Blood nonsense for example) but that’s all made up nonsense.
Protestantism, whether it is to be considered right or wrong, rests upon the shoulders of one man, one inventor, one creator, one father - and that’s Martin Luther.
Our founder was Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God. Your ultimate founder was a brilliant, but possibly mentally ill, rebel monk named Martin Luther. That will never change.