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To: A.A. Cunningham

That is true, but he also started the protestant revolution that continues to this day. He changed the world more than any other person in the last 500 years, with the possible exception of Christopher Columbus, or do you disagree?


60 posted on 06/04/2008 10:33:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He didn't really change the world. All he did is spark the Protestant Movement, which itself was pretty bloody and evil at times.
Even then he became a traitorous backstabber. The man was a psychopath, a dangerous loose cannon.

And the "protestant revolution" isn't all that good anymore either. It's leading people away from the Gospel of Christ now, the "united gay church" (and trinity church) for example.

We don't need any more "protestant revolution". What we need is for those churches to return to the gospel, not do whatever feels good and accommidating to unrepentant sinners, and enviromentalism.

65 posted on 06/04/2008 10:53:15 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I agree that he changed the world but not for the better and even he wrought change that he didn't want.

On 3 March, 1519, he wrote to Pope Leo X: "Before God and all his creatures, I bear testimony that I neither did desire, nor do desire to touch or by intrigue to undermine the authority of the Roman Church and that of your holiness."

Like I wrote earlier, do a comprehensive study of his published work and correspondence and you'll come to a different conclusion than the one you've already reached.

67 posted on 06/04/2008 10:58:50 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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