Re: A good improt from Chicago hoprefully to Edinburgh!
Reply #28 –
Oh that certainly a thought out piece of well actually, spiritual drivel. Considering the history of that corner it's centuries of persecution of people, bunring them in vats of oil at the stake a whole range of specially created torture instruments, claims by a leader who makes false claims, doesn't equate fully to the Bible, is morally corrupt never mind the spiritual you would make a brilliant Minister of Propaganda.Now wink at your picture of that top notcher propagandist, Goebells. Oh that reminds me, he, Hitler, Goering, Himmler and the rest were all Pope's people. Add other dictatorships and you have a long record of activity but the only trouble is that it is all a terrible indictment! Corruption is part and parcel of the tradition, celibacy is a nosnense as it bred thousands of priestly affairs over the centuries.
Here in delightful Scotland at the Reformation ours was instigated from the people not from those above. At that time in the mid-15th century there were 3,000 bastards cared for in nunneries as the parents were priests and nuns. In South Vietnam during the war the US were hopeless at NYC boss, cardinal Spellman described their troops there as Christ's soliders. Many were puzzled as to why people were burning themselves in the streets of Saigon and it was on further analysis the fact that a massively Buddhist people were being run by a regime full of RC's! John Knox here was a priest who appalled at the Church corruption and lack of morality had enough and spearheaded the change. Martin Luther was the same and when he visited Rome he was totally un-nerved at the decadence of the Church. He took on the Holy roman lot and stood by simple Christian truth without all the guff about princes of he Church and all the inflated pomposity and erroneous directions - much taken from Pagan places like Babylon and elsewhere.The garden had to be weeded and the Protestants did a good job of it (!).
It was exceedingly kind of you Belfrager dear Lisbon chum to give me the opportunity to clarify the situation. Many thanks my pleasant Romanist associate for giving me the chance to stand by the truth. As a generous Protestant to an equally perhaps un-intended kindess if you are ever in Glasgow a meal in a posh restaurant!!