[johnny7]

“But let it suffice that clearly Islam does not need a Reformation.

Indeed... but perhaps... a bullet?

[Salvation]

For later.

[aft_lizard]

Hard to read with all of the missplaced question marks.

[sageb1]

Excellent! Thanks for posting this.

[dangus]

Life in England, c. 1200:
Life expectancy: 60 years old
Average numbers of workdays per week: just over 3.

Life in England, after the "Rennaissance (Rebirth)," "Enlightenment," etc.
Life expectancy: 30 years old
Average number of workdays per week: Over 6.

Enlightenment, my ass.
Rennaissance of what? The dragon of Revelations?

[VOA]

bump

[IrishCatholic]

bookmark for later printing.

[livius]

Good article.

Actually, Islam gets its "reformations" all the time, as stricter, more rigid groups conquer those who have grown more accomodating of the modern world and the West. This has actually been true of Islam since the beginning: because of its extremely literalist interpretation of its extremely violent scriptures, the "orthodox" always overrun and stamp out any Muslims who show signs of adapting. But that's to be expected from something that is not a religion, but a bizarre cult which essentially tries to set up a special cultic world and impose it on everyone.

[stripes1776]

The criticism in this article of Puritanism and the Reformation is one of the most uninformed that I have ever read. At the time of the Reformation, the typical Catholic priest was an uneducated peasant who know no Latin except what he memorized for the Mass and pronounced very badly. He lived with a concubine with whom he had illegitimate children he called his "nephews." He often got his "nephews" jobs with the church, giving rise to the word nepotism, from the Latin for nephew.

Puritans and other Protestants were not joyless people. They had their pleasures. One of those pleasures of Protestant ministers was reading classical literature. Harvard was founded by a Puritan minister for the training of ministers. He donated to the school his extensive private library of works in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

The author of this article should spend a few months reading good histories of the Middles Ages, the Renaissance, and the Reformation. Then he wouldn't waste his time writing an essay filled with cliches, platitudes, and factual errors.

[ELS]

bttt

[bert]

He left out the part about the Catholic Church being corrupt to the core and the reformation was largely about saving souls from corrupt churchman.

The change in Islam is being led by the corrupt Mullahs in Iran.

[Dad yer funny]

bookmk ping-a-ling , for later

[A.J.Armitage]

Again I marvel at the deep hypocrisy of anti-Protestant Catholics.

Protestants are just like Wahabbis -- and that's an insult to Wahabbis! Except when he wants to claim Protestant American frontiersmen for medieval Catholicism.

Then there's the Catholic commenter who made a snide remark about burning witches. There's really nothing that can be said to him: a Catholic who would say such a thing has deliberately chosen to abdicate all self-awareness and intellect.