Yes, but their solution was to burn down society. The Nobles did the right thing putting them down like dogs.
I think you might appreciate this Monty Python clip
None of them are institutions, and none come close to the scale of the Catholic Church.
Some say it was billions, perhaps even trillions of people. For no reason at all.
Yes, every single Bishop, Priest, Deacon, I heard even the laity was corrupt, down to the infants. Centuries upon centuries, it was horrible.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Some ideologies don't deserve to exist. The Catholic Church single-handedly save the West from becoming muslim, and it will do it again.
Rerum Novarum had no effect on society, completely toothless, I tells ya!
This one is my favorite lie you've spouted. Good job, you son of the devil.
Luther called himself a miserable bag of worms, and Augustinianism isn't known for having a optimistic view of human nature. People often sum this up as "Lord have mercy upon me for I am both evil and retarded."
Roman Catholic trying to avoid damning anyone who disagrees with them challenge (impossible)
I prefer latins with a bit of fire and brimstone methinks, cause the ones that arnt are all wierdos who pray with muslims. At least the the former has a real position that I can exchange discourse with, Ive talked with one of those uniates and it seemed like basically anything goes theologically for them as long as you submit to the Pope. Its kinda wild.
Views on the afterlife are a big reason I'm a protestant. It's easy to look at Roman Catholics with doctrines like purgatory and salvation for the unlearned and think, 'these people have gone theologically off the rails', but then I look at the Orthodox with their doctrines of praying people out of Hell, no fire in Hell, and the 40 day journey into the afterlife, and suddenly the Catholics don't look so bad.
All the more reason not to be a Lutheran.
The nature of Hell is often debated. What we know for certain is that Hell is total and complete separation from God, and only God knows who might be sent there.
I like the bolded part, I'm glad that (unlike the Orthodox) the Catholics will at least admit Hell is eternal
So youre a reformed of some kind? Whatever the case, I just dont think the idea that hell is a created place that God throws you into to be tortured is at all consistent with scripture and Gods love and mercy. God is all good, he does not create evil. Evil is the absence of good, and so fundamentally what Hell is is seperation from God as a result of your own actions. If you are seperated from God, then God who is a cleansing fire will burn you by the very presence of his uncreated light and in the end Gods presence will be inescapable. So no there is not a literal fire that God created to torture you.
I am not.
You are entitled to believe whatever you want about God, however what the Bible actually says is:
CCC 1033: To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell."
Well at least you give me it's eternal and may have fire, I can't even get that out of the Orthodox.
From what you've said the Orthodox notion of Hell is more like Purgatory.
I think there is a confusion here, Orthodox do not view hell as temporary, it is indeed so far as we know eternal. But rather like the Psalms say we know that Gods love is eternal, and we know that the scriptures tell us God invaded hell and led his people out. So we offer our prayers for the dead out of hope for Gods eternal mercy. You keep asserting what we believe but I dont think you actually know or understand our position.