Question For Protestants

[BluffTHIS!]

Hey txaq007, how come you never join my protestant/catholic discussion threads? I feel rejected.

[KeysrSoze]

Say what you want about the Catholic Church at the time, but Martin Luther was an equally nastly little man. He was extremely anti-Semitic, equally supported the torture and burning of witches, and didn't care a hoot about the common peasants of the land while toadying up to the nobility who protected him. Pretty much par for the course for everyone at that time, though.

[BluffTHIS!]

You're a man after my own heart, though out of justice and even though I am catholic, I have to acknowledge the abuses and failings of many church leaders then. But you are correct. Many protestants don't know a lot that Luther said and did, including his sanctioning of the bigamous marriage of his patron, Phillip the landgrave of Hesse.

[sexdrugsmoney]

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Say what you want about the Catholic Church at the time, but Martin Luther was an equally nastly little man.

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"You can take the boy out of Catholicism, but you can't take the Catholicism out of the boy." [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[baggins]

"fundamental Christian doctrines." i think we all agree on the one fundamental Christian doctrine: Christ died for our sins and we can be forgiven and restore a relationship with our Creator-God if we accept that and allow our lives to be ruled and led by Christ. all other doctrine is less than fundamental.

I also don't think that Catholic doctrine concerning this one essential tenet differs.

bah, denominations are antiquated and dumb. why can't the church just be the church? can't we all just love Jesus and love other people in his name? do we have to have a name for it and a board of elders to decide on things like infant baptism and the church's stance on XXXXXX doctrine?

[BluffTHIS!]

Read this other thread I started.

What You Protestants Don't Seem To Get