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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (250185)	12/1/2007 2:43:56 AM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 281500

nadine the facts are on my side.....compare the last 3 centuries in the protestant north to the last 3 in the catholic south.... but as you admit there were many periods of retrograde movement..... though it would be more exact to say there were MOMENTS of enlightened thought in catholic europe.....international gothic 150 years,the renaisance 100 years.....so 250 years of the last thousand saw a liberal catholic church. why is it that even today the protestant europe is were the power and action is.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (250185)	12/1/2007 3:10:33 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

re"the Protestant Revolution could never have existed without the development of such ideas in the Church during the Medieval Period." i like this sentence! ....such ideas were developed by individual catholics but never adopted and defused....hence the protestant revolution. take indulgences for example...it was church policy that one could buy absolution of sins....pure superstition for profit. take the miracle of the holy comunion.....catholics claim that the wine became christs blood through the miraculous intervention of the priest...p protestants claimed the wine only symbolized the blood of christ. which is the more enlightened out look... and ask ruf how superstitious italians are. ----------------- superstition and the catholic church....... "Parish priests were often seen as tolerating superstition or even practicing it themselves, and many of the leading campaigners against it were friars operating outside the diocesan hierarchy of the church........" science.jrank.org