Protestantism Quotes
Luther’s logic was that polygamy was sanctioned in the Old Testament and never specifically forbidden in the New Testament. This fact totally puzzled the American Mormons when the Protestants railed against the immorality of their plural marriages.
For the majority of the time of Christian History, it has been Catholic Christian History. Protestantism did not begin until the 16th Century.
Those who claim that the founding fathers contemplated religion as a critical component of government often point to this article of the South Carolina Constitution. However, they ignore the almost simultaneous passage of the New York constitution as in {612166}. When the framers of the Constitution met in 1787 in Philadelphia the separation of church and state issue was not really resolved and awaited the Bill of Rights where the separatists won out.
He was speaking metaphorically here. Literally dreaming in English is not his requirement. What is required is an outlook, perception, value system, and national identity that is American. Lack of English language proficiency makes that much harder to achieve.
Followers of the religious views of January Hus, 1369-1415 Hus was excommunicated and executed for his views that parts of the church were corrupt.
His answer was what Max Weber called “The Protestant Work Ethic.”
This quotation was written long before the “Protestant work ethic” was coined and well defined. Even though Say was a Frenchman from a Catholic country, he and most other serious economists and politicians recognized this vast difference.
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
Humility and doubt were not characteristics of Martin Luther.
Ireland was then under English Control but the majority of the population were Roman Catholic. The Protestants wanted to bring more “balance” to the country. They were so anxious to dilute the Catholic population that they considered Jews as Protestants for this purpose and many of them immigrating to Dublin created the foundation of the Irish Jewish population in modern Ireland.
In this document written in his later years, he virulently attacks the Jews in vicious and crude language. This is a very different Martin Luther than his earlier years. See {617772}
