I believe that Luther was a man God used in a very powerful way, to bring the Bible to the masses in the vernacular. And I don’t think it was any accident that this was initially accomplished in the area we now call Germany, where Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press many years earlier.

However, I agree with Concha that Luther’s later writings are anti-Semitic. Again, my point is that God uses individuals in powerful ways, but it doesn’t make them great people for all time.

Same with Mel Gibson. I believe that God used him in a powerful way to produce “The Passion” which resulted in many worldwide coming to faith in Christ. Many months later, the dissolute drunk Gibson was arrested, spewing anti-Semitic remarks. Why?

Because we are all sinners. No one person should be lifted up: only God should be. That is precisely why I am in complete disagreement with the Catholic precept that elevates the pontiff beyond others. All Christian believers should open their Bibles and read them.

I don’t trust this guy.

Many appear to believe that setting up a government-based social and legal system, with taxes and a heavy handed bureaucracy, will solve Africa’s problems. This is the preferred method of the US government. Send a thirty-year-old “expert” on trade, who’s never had a real job in his life, to bring capitalism to Russia, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, and too many others to name. The zero success rates have left our government unfazed, or even remotely reflective.

All bow to the virtues of “exploitation” which is the only true path to prosperity, and its handmaiden, enlightenment.

Martin Luther was formerly a Augustinian Monk & Catholic priest.

Martin Luther was one of the GREAT reformers. He found out that being born again of God required “justifcation by faith alone, and it was not by works. If the Bible bashes the Catholic church, and it does, everything should be done to expose its glaring false doctrine. Martin Berrow……..

“Apparently Wal Mart doesn’t pay its employees as much as some third parties would like to see them paid. But clearly Wal Mart isn’t paying them any less than what their labor is worth to other employers, otherwise they probably wouldn’t be working at Wal Mart. Moreover, third parties who wax indignant are paying them nothing.”

I love that last zinger!

He goes on to point out that the relevant comparison in examing wages in the third world is not how third world wages stack up against American wages. The relevant comparison is between the wages paid by the “horrible, exploitive” corporations versus the wages the citizens could otherwise earn.

But I forgot…if not for the sins of Western man, all other cultures would be back in the Garden, living in harmony with nature, and enjoying Grateful Dead concerts. My bad.