Martin Luther’s Revolution
A REFORMATION DAY LESSON ON DEMOCRACY By Larry Marchant || Last weekend many protestent churches celYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
A REFORMATION DAY LESSON ON DEMOCRACY
By Larry Marchant || Last weekend many protestent churches cel
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Larry, I Miss YOU.
LMAO!
Thought bubble in Larry’s head: “Sssshhhhhh!!!! I have preaching/Jesus’s work to do. Then I’ll bed you heathen.”
WTF!
Martin Luther also had a significant influence on German antisemitism as seen in his harsh anti-Jewish statements and writings.
Oh yeah, Hitler was a real card carrying Lutheran. Good work Joe. Way to connect those dots.
Where’s 9″/Balsak/Shlomo/Grammar Coach when you need him?
Martin Luther called BS on the Catholic Church’s scams and games, only to have a denomination named after him that would also run scams and games on people.
“If you don’t believe as we do, you’re going to HELL!” “If you don’t convince your family and friends that they need to believe as we do, they will burn in hell and so will you.” Organized religion has always been and always will be about power, control, and money. Those gullible enough to buy into it will always be sheep, there for the fleecing by the almighty church.
Faith-based salvation is a curious thing. Eternal damnation in the fires of Hell is something you’d expect a rapist or a murderer to get (and even then, that’s rather harsh), not some guy or girl who lived a fairly good life but didn’t “repent” for that one time they got a bit tipsy at the bar and had a one night stand. We all sin, but last time I checked, they don’t throw you in a furnace for speeding.
That’s the whole mentality, though. You’re a terrible person because you stole a cookie from the cookie jar as a kid, and rather than give you a spanking or put you in time out, you should just be set on fire for the rest of eternity. Oh, unless you join the Jesus club, then you can do whatever the fuck you want.
I missed Jesus’ parables about the rapist and the cookie jar and the fleecing of the sheep.
However, a little known fact: Jesus actually did condemn cookie theifs to hell and died a rich man after successfully turning the early church into a multi-level marketing scheme.
“Luther’s belief in the individual has been credited with commencing the modern democratic form of government that the Western world enjoys today.”
LMAO! You know, you were doing fine up until the above tripe. Way to demonstrate a complete inability to understand the much larger history of “democracy” or put Luther’s “contributions” to it in context.
I’ll bet if you even bothered to reference the above statement the sources would all be Lutheren academics.
Carry on.
Good read and conversation. Thanks for the write-up.
Reading Marchant’s piece and the ensuing comments, it might be a good idea if everyone just kept to politics. However, the effort to review the Catholic-Protestant controversy is refreshing and of some interest. I mean, who wants to hear about Mormans and Sikhs?
This is hilarious. First Sanford resurfaces on Fox, and now we have Larry “The Affidavit” Marchant lecturing us about Martin Luther. How about that thou shalt not bang thy neighbor’s wife or covet her ass thing? What a tool!(“that’s what Nikki said…)
LOL! Great name and great comment.
Lutherans are not Baptist, Methodist or any other so called: Protestant Religions. Lutherans “Are,” the Protestant Religion. We do not condemn, nor say people will burn in hell, that’s Baptist and other religions. We have gay and Lesbian preachers. Supposedly, no Deacons, or church monarchy. Lutherans are the most Liberal of all main stream Christians. So, don’t confuse your ignorance with fact.
The fun thing to see is if the Pope ever lifted the X-communication of Martin Luther. If done, instantly nearly all main stream Protestant Religions would then become Catholics again. Because, their entire existence is based upon Martin Luther being X-communicated.
Besides, the only true Christian Church is the Orthodox Greek, Russian, etc. The Pope is just the Bishop of Rome left by Constantine to watch over Rome while he moved the Capital of Christian Faith to Constantinople, today’s Istanbul (The City). Sorry, people, all the others are just pretenders, not followers of the one true original Christian Church. If there ever was such a thing in the first place after the Nicene Convention. Where a Palestinian, and great Biblical historian, working for Constantine, actually wrote the first Holy Bible we use today.
That does give you a funny take on the USA’s position against Palestinians who are Christians and actually wrote the Bible, in favor of the Israeli Government (note separation from the great Jewish Religion). Something to think about!
Missouri Synod Lutherans, as would man Lutherans in Third World nations, disagree greatly with you.
Sorry Bill, as a (Lutheran) Christian, I can tell you that we’re both so close and yet so far away. In other words, your form of “Lutheranism” – which you’ve apparently co-opted to speak for all “us” (Lutherans) – is like that crazy uncle at Christmas. Sure, we’re family, but we’re nothing alike. In fact and ironically, I likely have more in common now with the Catholic Church than your version of Lutheranism (and particularly so since the Catholic Church’s Vatican II of the 1960’s). As a result of all of these recent denominational changes, I now rightly define myself as a Christian whose method of worship/beliefs comes from my Germanic Lutheran background. Had I been born Italian, French, or Irish, I’d likely be Catholic; Scottish?, Presbyterian; or English?, Episcopalian or Methodist. Again, though I am proud of my heritage and have the greatest respect for Martin Luther and his efforts to accomplish the Reformation, I’m proud also to not be associated with your form of Lutheranism. Regardless, peace in Christ be with you!
Andrew is right. Those are the ones who really try to convince everyone who is not one of them that they are all going to burn in HELL.
Basic Christian doctrine is Believe in Christ and live, don’t believe and die in your sins. Martin Luther believed that. He believed that when he was an Augustinian monk / scholar and later when he was a Protestant.
All the streams of Orthodoxy, all the streams of Roman Catholicism, all the streams of Protestantism say this.
Folks act like it is some kind of minor sect, or even worse, “those people I don’t like” who say that.
It isn’t.
It is Christianity 101.
Now some folks are obnoxious about it. Some are milquetoast and mild about it, but it is still out there.
What I mostly hear from many non – Christians is “Those folks who say people who don’t believe in Jesus are going to hell, I don’t like that, but I like XXXX denomination that doesn’t make a big deal about it.”
Ok – if spineless, squishy sorts – who say that the most important thing in their life isn’t THAT big of a deal, then go for it.
Now if what you are saying is, “I don’t like obnoxious people.” Well, ok, good, but being obnoxious isn’t a basic Christian doctrine, anywhere.
So you’re good there.
“So if you hear someone talking about the Reformation, remember its importance for each of us, not just Lutherans. You see, Luther’s belief in the individual has been credited with commencing the modern democratic form of government that the Western world enjoys today”
Want a source on that
I was trying not to fuck anything today/night,but seeing “Larry Marchant” and thinking about the last Lutheran I dated(are they all queer?),has given me an ungodly erection.Jesus Fucking Christ.How ’bout some pics of Mr Marchant,please?! That’s one hot silverdaddy.
This is so weird. Two men allegedly have sex with the same married woman and then they form some sort of club where they publicly espouse similar doctrine both religiously and politically.
Does this make them Usher Bros?
Wonder if they made her scream “Oh God?” Or “Oh Waheguru?”
Robert A. Heinlein put it best when he said:
“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.”
– SSHM
God bless you my son.
They did do a decent job of running hospitals for a while before they were pushed out of that industry.
I would also say that I would take people worshipping God/Jesus any day over those worshipping govt-even though I disagree with both.
Gotta wonder if Nikki even felt it… I’d guess no
Trust me… She didn’t.
I sat through daily religion classes at a Missouri Synod Lutheran school and can recite pages of Luther’s Small Catechism at the drop of a hat. Still trying to get it out of my head.
Fuck martin luther, he was nothing more than a treacherous decadent peasant, fuck christianity, and above all else, fuck democracy! why dont all you modern, so called protestant, joel osteen christians exercise a little honesty and praise your one true god:money! which provides you with your favorite past time, namely eating fatty foods sitting on your ass and watching reality tv….think for yourself…HA
Fuck martin luther, he was nothing more than a treacherous decadent peasant, fuck christianity, and above all else, fuck democracy! why dont all you modern, so called protestant, joel osteen christians exercise a little honesty and praise your one true god:money! which provides you with your favorite past time, namely eating fatty foods sitting on your ass and watching reality tv….think for yourself…HA