Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Why did the Protestant Reformation Happen?" video.

  1. Until his death ... Martin Luther was true to his personal interpretation of words in the Catholic bible. At that time in history ... there wasn't any Protestant bible. It was the German princes that coined the word “protest” ... which became "Protestant" and simply meant that Martin and his Catholic followers were "protesting" what pope Leo X was preaching as being truth from God. Martin’s AIM was to overthrow the pope and replace the pope with his self. He wanted to be married … and as a Catholic monk, that was not allowed. So … he swore that Pope Leo X was a heretical blasphemer and that HE (Martin) knew the *correct interpretation of the very same Catholic bible. “I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.” Martin Luther. And of course, Pope Leo X referred to Martin Luther as being the “real” heretic. The tragedy of their choices … is that they were both just imagining that they knew truth from a god ... and that their arrogant behavior in turn resulted in division and war ... and the torture and death of many humans caught in the fray. And that to this day ... because of animosity ... has never created even a semblance of "agreement" in terms of biblical interpretation between the many factions. All the torture and anger and bloodshed could have been spared ... if only all the so-called "Men of the cloth" had said those three little words ... "I don't know."
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