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Though I am not a "Lutheran", I do admire Martin Luther for what he was brave enough to do for the cause of the Gospel. I think it is comical sometimes how Catholics will toss out the "Luther" card like it was some kind of grenade designed to blow up all the non-Catholics on a thread to shut us all up. Nearly every single time I've seen it used, it's a cherry-picked snippet or something that some rabid Catholic writer thought he knew about the man.

I'm sure you remember the back and forth we did with a few Catholics sorta recently who INSISTED that Luther had no right to leave the Catholic priesthood and get married to a former nun. They accused them both of sinful lust and all kinds of nasty names were hurled at them for DARING to do what they did. Yet, here, right in this OP, the author says it's no big deal if priests or nuns want to leave the clergy and get married! They are free to do so, he says. There is just so much hypocrisy going on in this church that I really do have to laugh whenever we are told they have UNITY on everything!

You may not have read these, but here is a link to what are called Luther's Letters. They are translations of his many correspondences between friends and the Catholic clergy, including his letters to several Popes. It shows that his decision to do what he did was NOT based on hatred or even discontent with his life. He sincerely wanted to change what had gone so wrong with his beloved Catholic Church. He went back and forth with them for YEARS and THEY excommunicated him, he didn't voluntarily leave. It's a long read, but you can do it in segments. It opened my eyes to who the man really was and not the boogieman the Roman Catholic Church portrayed him as. The link is http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2005/10/letters-of-martin-luther.html

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Thanks for the link. Luther married a nun? I didn’t know that or that he married. I had two nun cousins who came out of the convent and married and they scored big - both married real great men.

I laugh every time they bring out the Luther card; yet, are calling former catholics ‘home’. LOL! They aren’t even in unity with their own minds! They need a Luther button to reset themselves.

Father, it’s been a week since my last confession. I have a Luther button on my belly. I feel a strange need to leave the CC and never look back. Will I turn into a pillar of salt if I do?

Go, my child, I’m right behind you for I confess I recently got a Luther button on my navel, also. BTW, are you married and can you cook? Your penance is to cook me a 7 course meal. I feel the need to eat like a glutton today - and celebrate. And don’t look back as I am on a restricted salt diet because this closet makes my BP rise. I hate when I have closet duty.

And they lived happily ever after.