old man Wrote:There came a time in Europe in the 16th century when enough Christians within the Roman Catholic Church were led to see how far the New Testament message had been twisted and altered by the papacy. The Reformation movement then started gaining a fast growing momentum as more and more enlightened Christians began speaking out against this corruption. But fearing the protest movement would spread throughout Europe and beyond, the established church began persecuting Protestants as they were then called. Many were tortured and put to death if they did not recant their new Reformed beliefs and stop denouncing papal doctrine. Such persecution clearly exposed the depth of the depravity of the papacy as more and more Protestants were tortured to death.
Weren't the Protestants just as brutal to the Catholics?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
