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You didn't quote Luther's work directly, neither did you post the link where you got the text. I'll wager it was from Catholic Answers, Patrick Madrid or some other hardly-objective Roman Catholic apologetic site. The reason I know that is any honest discussion of Luther's "The Mass and the Ordination of Priests", would admit that Luther NEVER implied this was an actual discussion. I repeat, some Catholics are SO gullible they will swallow and spit out whatever they can find to disparage non-Catholic Christians. Picking apart Luther is merely one such tactic as if trashing him destroys the whole reason behind the Reformation.

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I wonder at the idea that if they show that Martin Luther is so bad, they will then become Catholic. This is certainly a negative tactic that suggests that those pursuing this agenda really have no better arguments for Catholicism than that Luther was bad, so therefore Lutherans should become Catholic. I find this extremely unconvincing. Isn't there anything good in Catholicism? Did these Luther-bashers really become Catholic because they took a dislike to Luther? That is like preferring God to Satan because you don't like Satan - never mind what God is like. Faint praise, there.

I wonder, is this the effect FRoman Catholics imagine they will have here by attacking Martin Luther? I will advise them that they shouldn't get their hopes up. I am grateful sites like http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/ exists, because they do a great job of exposing the hypocrisy and dishonesty behind much of what polemical Roman Catholics use as weapons.

“You didn’t quote Luther’s work directly, neither did you post the link where you got the text.”

I did post the link. It did not come up as an active link but it is right there are at the bottom of the quote. Gee, I guess that’s one of those “minute details” huh?

Good point.

If the best you can do to win converts is make the other person look worse than yourself, then you have nothing to stand on.

If Catholicism were all that Catholics make it out to be, it would stand on its own merit and there would never need to be even a mention of Luther, Calvin, whoever. Catholicism would win on its own.

And it doesn’t.