>>25713
Looks like you haven't read him either. It's so tiring listening to people who refuse to pick up a book, yet insist they're the ones who understand it more than you. Reminds me of those atheists who always act like they know better than you despite not being Christians and never reading the Bible, but I guess even we do that same exact thing to each other. We sorely lack the brotherly love John wrote of in his epistles.
>Any ideology that bears any another name than Christ is immediately suspect.
What do you mean? Are you saying that people who agree with what Luther wrote are like those guys who said they were "of Paul" instead of Christ? [1 Cor 1:12-15, 3:3-5] That would be very disingenuous of you when we have orders of Augustinians, Dominicans, Franciscans, &c.
Expect Martin Luther to be vindicated. Pope John Paul II even went so far as to praise him.
>There is a need for a new evaluation of the questions raised by Luther and his teaching. Such a re-evaluation has begun from the Catholic side.
>In recent years, however, further study of the thought of the first Reformers has shed light on positions more open to Catholic doctrine. Luther’s writings, for example, show love and veneration for Mary, extolled as a model of every virtue: he upholds the sublime holiness of the Mother of God and at times affirms the privilege of the Immaculate Conception, sharing with other Reformers belief in Mary’s perpetual virginity. The study of Luther and Calvin’s thought, as well as the analysis of some texts of Evangelical Christians, have contributed to a renewed attention by some Protestants and Anglicans to various themes of Mariological doctrine. Some have even arrived at positions very close to those of Catholics regarding the fundamental points of Marian doctrine, such as her divine motherhood, virginity, holiness and spiritual motherhood.
As younger Catholic men continue to see the corruption in the Church and just how deep it runs, more and more of them will come to the realization that Luther was entirely correct in his judgement against the Church of his time. From the recent commemoration in Lund of the Martin Luther's posting of the 95-theses:
>While we are profoundly thankful for the spiritual and theological gifts received through the Reformation, we also confess and lament before Christ that Lutherans and Catholics have wounded the visible unity of the Church. Theological differences were accompanied by prejudice and conflicts, and religion was instrumentalized for political ends. Our common faith in Jesus Christ and our baptism demand of us a daily conversion, by which we cast off the historical disagreements and conflicts that impede the ministry of reconciliation. While the past cannot be changed, what is remembered and how it is remembered can be transformed. We pray for the healing of our wounds and of the memories that cloud our view of one another. We emphatically reject all hatred and violence, past and present, especially that expressed in the name of religion. Today, we hear God’s command to set aside all conflict. We recognize that we are freed by grace to move towards the communion to which God continually calls us.
>We pray to God that Catholics and Lutherans will be able to witness together to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, inviting humanity to hear and receive the good news of God’s redeeming action.
>>25714
So you even admit you haven't read him. But why do you need to? You of course know everything. What a laugh. It'll be a very harsh wake up call for you when you realize you'll receive the same treatment as Martin Luther, and as things get worse, might even receive the same treatment as Jan Hus, when you decide to stick up for the true faith as our churches fly LGBT flags and are overrun with theologically liberal garbage. Remember that St. Athanasius was fighting against the Arian heresy, and then he was vastly outnumbered, with nearly every bishop embracing it but him, including the bishop of Rome. That is how we must think of ourselves now.
>I brief, dear princes and lords, those of you who have Jews under your rule if my counsel does not please your, find better advice, so that you and we all can be rid of the unbearable, devilish burden of the Jews, lest we become guilty sharers before God in the lies, blasphemy, the defamation, and the curses which the mad Jews indulge in so freely and wantonly against the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, this dear mother, all Christians, all authority, and ourselves. Do not grant them protection, safe-conduct, or communion with us.... With this faithful counsel and warning I wish to cleanse and exonerate my conscience.