I notice that, too.
What I really think is happening with this regularly bringing up of Luther on the Religion Forum is that it's a kind of covert slap in the face of all Freeper "Protestants". I put that in quotes because no matter how many times it has been explained that not every non-Cath Christian is a "Protestant", there are several Catholic anti-Protestant bigots who INSIST we all are whether we want to accept the label or not. These people assume Luther IS the Reformation - that it started with him - and we all follow him even five centuries later. Ergo, if Luther is teh debble, then we're all debbles, too. Clear?
Strangely enough, they simply ignore or brush off the exposure of the dozens of REAL devilish Popes they have had leading their religion almost from the start. I think the LDS blinds them to their own hypocrisy. Luther never killed anyone, committed adultery, kept mistresses, had illegitimate children, murdered his competitors or opponents, stole vast sums of money, bribed fellow cardinals, fixed conclaves, installed his own bastard sons as bishops or cardinals or Popes, connived with foreign rulers to gain political power, or any number of various and sundry sins DOCUMENTED about the Roman Catholic hierarchy. But Luther is condemned because he recognized the rot at the top and the perversion of the Gospel and set about to remedy it at the leading of the Holy Spirit. For his trouble he was excommunicated and a death sentence was handed down. Yet not a one of those demonic Popes was ever deposed much less excommunicated! Odd don't you think?
Yet not a one of those demonic Popes was ever deposed much less excommunicated! Odd don’t you think?
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Very odd.
But confront them with the fact, or the whole gay-orgies-in-the-Vatican thing, or the selling-climate-change thing, or the indulgences thing, and all you get is, “WE WUZ STARTED BY JEEEEEEEEZUSSSS!”
Altered for mockery, of course.
I’m beginning to wonder if many Catholics are starting to recognize the problem in the Vatican right now. But they were taught since they were kids that anyone who breaks away from the Roman curate is EEEEEEVIL. When confronted with Scripture and the evils of the popes and the current evils going on, the only response is either to blame Luther or to just repeat over and over and over ‘we were first we were first we were first we were first.’
I’m just imagining a fetal position, honestly.
Though that may just be my overactive imagination.