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To: kempster

“Luther was one person who opposed the Holy See.”

No, Luther really opposed the Church.


19 posted on 08/24/2015 6:58:24 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998
No, Luther really opposed the Church.

If you'd read anything about him, you'd know he was conflicted because he loved the Church but hated the corruption. He tried to help them see their need for reformation but they were blinded by their lusts and greed.

25 posted on 08/24/2015 7:05:13 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Hillary for prison in 2016!)
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To: vladimir998
No, Luther really opposed the Church.

No, Luther opposed some really horrible practices and man made traditions. One specifically was that Luther opposed the burning of heretics. Funny, the RCC defended the practice against Luther. There are even Catholics today that approve of the practice and wish Luther would have burned.

26 posted on 08/24/2015 7:08:11 PM PDT by Tao Yin
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To: vladimir998

Luthiers main opposition was the thought that one could pay enough to get to heaven and that someone could intercede on their behalf.


29 posted on 08/24/2015 7:36:30 PM PDT by kempster
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To: vladimir998

Luther saved thousands from the grasp of an apostate system. He is a hero of the true Church composed of all true believers even if your sect doesnt think much of him.


39 posted on 08/24/2015 8:15:38 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: vladimir998
No, Luther really opposed the Church.

Oh; so THESE folks had NOTHING to do with it; right?



Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

85 posted on 08/25/2015 10:59:10 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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