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Get over it<\/a>. \u00a0Fact is, from the Reformation and before, the Church was more than willing to send to their deaths those who ran afoul of the Church and its authority. \u00a0Yes, tales of the Church running amok, butchering millions of helpless doctors and scientists and any thinking person because the Church opposed smart people is an exaggeration. <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the atmosphere out of which the Protestant Reformation was born was one where the Church was increasingly comfortable turning to the burning stake or other similar approaches for dealing with trouble makers. \u00a0Even such notable and celebrated Saints as Thomas More chose to send Protestant dissenters to a horrifying, torturous death.<\/p>\n

Oddly, had the Church not responded with such heavy handed and purposely deceitful tactics in its dealing with Luther, the Reformation may not have taken hold. \u00a0As it was, Luther, for all his own foibles, couldn\u2019t\u2019 help but look the sympathetic figure against a Church that was increasingly seen as corrupt and wicked on a good day by a growing segment of European Culture. \u00a0The fact that nobody doubts the Church wouldn\u2019t have done to Luther what it did to Huss in earlier times, only solidifies the sympathy most had for Luther\u2019s cause.<\/p>\n

Yes, Protestants would also return the favor. \u00a0And the acts committed by both Protestants and Catholics and others during that period that began long before Luther was born, has left Jesus with no small number of black eyes. <\/p>\n

So while it\u2019s always noteworthy when we might have discovered something new, or added a piece to history, remember: in our post-Christian world, most only hear this as proof that those Christians were just as murderous as everyone says they were. \u00a0Many today don\u2019t separate between the Catholic and the Protestant. \u00a0The simply blame the Faith. \u00a0And since plenty of blood can be found on the hands of both sides, it does little good to try to act as if one side was the innocent victim, and the other the villain. \u00a0It\u2019s enough to say it happened, without trying to suggest some strange fluke by one side in an otherwise beautiful period of peace and tolerance. \u00a0That\u2019s when it gets embarrassing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"