I'm glad you've asked:
500 years of the Reformation. What is there to celebrate?
Lamenting Luther’s Reformation
Did you bother with my link? I spent >hour last night editing & publishing it, you can at least just take a brief look and give me your thoughts on what little you read there. Seemed quite sensible to me, summarized as: only God forgives, people can’t buy others’ way out of purgatory, and if they could you’d think the Pope would be selling everything to do so.
“500 years of the Reformation. What is there to celebrate?”
Upshot: link condemns Reformation breaking Catholic unity.
Rebuttal: what good is “unity” when unified around an evil cause? The 95 Theses were sensible questions about indulgences, culminating with to wit “why then does not the Pope sell all and buy everyone out of Purgatory?”
“Lamenting Luther’s Reformation”
Upshot: Luther was a sinner.
Rebuttal: Yup. As are the rest of us. At least he tried to end the evils of indulgences and idol worship.
“Martin Luther Is Probably In Hell”
Upshot: acknowledge the RCC’s interpretation as absolutely correct, or go to Hell. Literally.
Rebuttal: Luther’s 95 Theses rather eloquently & clearly point out the raging absurdity of this. ...which is kinda the point of Luther’s 95 Theses.
“Myths of the Reformation”
Upshot: author sets up 7 straw men, declares them “myths”, then proceeds to misrepresent them as actual Protestant holdings and thinks himself special by burning them down.
Rebuttal: Uh, ok. He just destroyed arguments that he admits are made up, not held by Protestants, and in doing so fails to address anything relevant.
There. I’ve read & addressed your links.
How’s your reading of the 95 Theses going?