Not ignorance. Observation.
Catholics are always presuming that non-Catholics are followers of Luther.
We’re not.
It’s beyond the comprehension of virtually every Catholic I’ve ever met that I don’t follow some human leader. They just can’t wrap their minds around it, which is why Catholics are always throwing out quotes from Calvin and Luther as if it means anything to most of us.
Opinion pieces by man are simply opinion pieces. I am not obligated to believe or follow anything that anyone else says. Unlike Catholics who must submit to the authority of the pope and the church or risk their eternal salvation.
And if you want quotes, I can find them in the Catechism of the Catholic church and by other popes.
Well, that's not true. How could you possibly be followers of Luther?
The guy was barking mad. He was insane with rage against Jews and (!) the peasantry.
His early work seems sweet and reasonable. Just like the young Mohammed.
But then look what happens in later life - again just like Mohammed.
Gone are the sweet and reasonable words about the Jews, to be replaced with "The Jews and their Lies". It's like a mask comes off, revealing the hideous and vengeful spirit within.
No, I believe you. No-one who has read the translated ravings of Luther could follow him for a minute.
Indeed, and often parroting dubious or out of context quotes - as if we followed a pope who spoke infallbly.
And or they are criticizing us as having no pope, while dismissing many views of their own pope as simply those of a "private theologian."
While also criticizing us for engaging in private interpretation, which they (as seen recently) have no problem engaging in.
Yet the church began because souls engaged in such, dissenting from those who sat in the seat of Moses.