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To: encm(ss); xJones
References ? http://www.google.com/search?q=martin+luther+thousand++times+murder+adultery
25 posted on 01/24/2009 4:27:06 PM PST by festus (Politics makes for strange bedfellows)
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To: festus
Back during the Reformation it could become exceedingly dangerous for a Reformer to speak ill of the RC hierarchy and its justifications if the local protective prince continued to be a devout Catholic.

As a consequence you'll find a vast body of Reformist condemnation of "Jews". However, if you take a really close look at what they're saying, it's actually about the RC hierarchy and any claims it might make as successor to the Temple in Jerusalem. Which means, of course, that the complaint is about the RC hierarchy and not the Jews.

It's kind of like the rage expressed by Democrats in 2006 over a couple of Republican homosexuals. Probably a big surprise to everybody that any Democrats at all were concerned with homosexual misbehavior, but there it was.

In short, without a good grounding in the history of the Reformation it's probably dangerous to take any of this stuff at face value ~ besides which, if it involves Luther, it's being translated out of German, only then a language being tied down in its written form.

31 posted on 01/24/2009 4:38:22 PM PST by muawiyah
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