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Oh please! This cherry-picked excerpt has been disputed so many times here I'm surprised it had to be trotted out so soon. Must mean the arguments are hitting home. What do you think I could prove by picking apart the encyclicals or sermons of your Popes? How about the recent foofaraw over Pope Francis saying he "wouldn't judge homosexual clergy"? I'd rather be honest and discuss their comments in their context and prove them wrong by Holy Scripture - that really is the better tack, don't you think?

JFTR - should anyone actually BUY your opinion of what you think Luther was saying, here is a link to judge the man by what he actually said and not what one wishes he did in order to condemn him http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/search?q=sin+boldly. I challenge you to read it and stop making yourself look desperate.

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Yep, they can't talk about the present - they go back to the thorn in Rome's side - LUTHER! He certainly make a HUGE impact FOR Christianity and Catholicism cannot handle it - that one of their own exposed them to the world!

They had a nice little gig going on there but like Jesus said - the gates of hell won't prevail against HIS CHURCH. The gig was up and they haven't recovered from it since.