Based on your (illogical) theory one can deduce that since your Protestant forefathers killed other Protestants AND Catholics, I guess YOU have no love for one another, let alone anyone else. ;)
Also, it appears you don't even know your own Protestant history.
Actually, you don't care. ;)You only care to attack The Church and turn a blind eye to your forefathers aggressions and
pacts with the devil.
The early Protestants and Islam established a sense of mutual tolerance and understanding, despite theological differences, considering each other to be closer to one another than to Catholicism.
The Ottoman Empire supported the early Protestant churches and contributed to their survival in dire times.
Luther regarded the Ottomans as allies against the papacy, considering them the "rod of God's wrath against Europe's sins."
The allegiances of the Ottoman Empire and threat of Ottoman expansion in Eastern Europe pressured King Charles 5th to sign the Peace of Nuremberg with the Protestant princes, accept the
Peace of Passau, and the
Peace of Augsburg, formally recognizing Protestantism in Germany and ending military threats to their existence.
Your saint, Martin Luther, views of Islam were mild when compared to his aggressive speech against Catholicism (and later
Judaism).
But hey......Brakelite is only here to point out Catholic abuses and ignore his own Protestant history.
Carry on brakelite.....Lets hear more attacks kiddo.
Guess what Mary. I'm well aware of Protestant history, and you do make some good points. Violence and war is evil regardless of who the protagonists are. I have written often in this very forum of the dangers inherent in the present Protestant ambitions in America, and Bible prophecy is very revealing regarding the future of that nation.
However. The reasons for my pointing out the historical transgressions of Rome as opposed to other communions, is that the others, at least presently, aren't boasting that they are the only one true church and have complete authority over all other churches, and claim that even governments in some countries ought to submit to that same authority.
Now those posts I have written over the past 8 years or so, express my very serious concern about the Protestant agenda to form a union with the state to implement a religious neo theocracy, and a part of that agenda is to coerce the nation to surrender to Papal authority in doctrinal matters. Behind much of current Protestant political ambitions are Jesuit trained ministers and politicians. And there are many. So my posts and objections extend to far greater considerations than some random debate on whose church is best, but authority? Now that's the very crux of the issue. And believe me, neither ism is worthy of having authority over any of us. Not just because of the abhorrent failings of the past, but also the ambitious power hungry agenda of the near future of both Catholicism and Protestantism. Ecumenism is a grand fake front, and a modern Babel-Babylon to help implement a global union of church and state...some of the issues we talk about here are really minor and irrelevant unless we include the context of Bible prophecy, which doesn't speak well of either.
I call myself a Protestant yes, principally because the reformation isn't finished. It stalled. The actual protesting stopped. The scriptures ceased to be upheld as the foundation of faith. My allegiances aren't to any individual church system that is willing to use politics, force, war, persecution, deception, in order to gain power and privilege. Such methods are utterly contradictory to biblical principles. Why do I point out Catholic failings? Because Catholics need to front up to them, and recognise their institutional history is testament to its identity as biblically and prophetically an institution that is unworthy of their attention. "Come out of her My people" is what Jesus is saying to His people who are locked into both systems. Nothing will hurt you to come out if you sincerely love Jesus. In fact the opposite. Knowing and loving Jesus and having the faith to believe "all things work together for good to them that love God and who are the called according to His purpose", trusting in the blood of the Lamb for your salvation.
Be not dismayed whate’er betide,
God will take care of you;
Beneath his wings of love abide,
God will take care of you.
CHORUS:
God will take care of you,
Through every day, o’er all the way;
He will take care of you,
God will take care of you.
Through days of toil when heart doth fail,
God will take care of you;
When dangers fierce your path assail,
God will take care of you.
All you may need he will provide,
God will take care of you;
Nothing you ask will be denied,
God will take care of you.
No matter what may be the test,
God will take care of you;
Lean, weary one, upon his breast,
God will take care of you.