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So says Mark Shea<\/a>.\u00a0 As the ship continues to sink into the abyss, Mark throws away yet one more shard of his former life and finally declares that while some Protestants are no doubt lovely people, the Reformers were evil liars who poisoned humanity.\u00a0 Did the Reformation bear some fruit?\u00a0 Yes, as did Judas Iscariot\u2019s betrayal of Christ!\u00a0 This is a far cry form Mark Shea, c. 2005, who admitted the flaws of Protestantism, and its errors, while still holding up important recognition of the Church\u2019s own culpability at the time, as well as the positive witness that Protestants have brought to the world.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I get that the individualized interpretive base upon which\u00a0Protestant reformers leaned on is now a cancer in the post-modern world of relativity.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the thing folks.\u00a0 The Protestant Reformers were, for lack of a better word, Catholics.\u00a0 The Catholic Church had stood over the very environment out of which humanism and its influence on the Reformers grew.\u00a0 Again, nothing wrong with pointing out the fundamental flaws, esp. the<\/em> fundamental flaw, of the Reformation.\u00a0 But be honest.\u00a0 The mechanisms were already in place in a world where there was only One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.\u00a0 A lesson for those who act like what the Church has no responsibility for teaching its flock, or what the latest Pope is saying is no big deal.\u00a0 Just shut up and obey.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t work in the 16th century.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see it doing well today.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"