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Originally Posted by aron
Nobody died from Erasmus' writings; contrast this to the mayhem that followed Luther. I call that effective. Remember that our standard is Christ. "Let everything be done decently and in order", said Paul, and I agree. I see more Christ in Erasmus' life and letters than in Luther's.
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Well Aron, as you say, you are as entitled to your opinion as I am to mine... but I would say that it sounds like you're blaming Luther for the "mayhem" that followed him, rather than the parties that caused the mayhem (the Papists) - and that's a little like blaming a rape victim for dressing too attractively, wouldn't you say? ("Well, if you woulda just put up with all the apostacy and corruption instead of nailing your 95 thesis to the door in Wittenburgh, you never would have gotten so many thousands killed, WOULD you have Martin?!") Martin Luther wasn't the bad guy here, the Papists were. And if you can't take a stand against Apostacy, then how can you possibly be better than the apostates?
....And if burning "heretics" at the stake was still acceptable, and Anaheim didn't have to content themselves with only "character" assassinations of those who 'oppose', then I think you can imagine where our own break with that "church" would lead us - can't you? In such a hypothetical scenario, would you lay the blame for the blood shed by Anaheim on us as well?
Ray