I am well aware every one of us here is or was a history buff in some way, but precisely because of that, it is pretty useless to waste time and side-tracking the main theme by pointing obvious or extremely well known facts every time someone doesn’t write NxN explanatory notes to an idea. Historical facts are known and taken into consideration Watchman, I have not majored in History but I probably read just as much as many qualified professors did when I was younger, nevermind that I participated in quite a few national olimpiads on International history – modelled here after http://www.imo-official.org (there isn’t an International phase for history).


I also get that here most people’s passion for History leads them to believe knowledge of History makes one an intellectual, when that doesn’t even begin to describe the concept unless it is part of a personal culture with a solid grasp on all subjects, from math to philosophy. Perhaps overreacting a bit and I pre-emptively apologise for that, but this insistence to nitpick phrases which are not at all untrue, just not all-encompassing, simply to display knowledge of some historical minutiae (which is not even the case now) is pointless.


And the point stands, Catholics moved in to suppress the spread of a Lutheranism which was ridiculing the state of the Church by pointing out the fallacies of their thesis and their degenerate morals. The Catholics did everything in their power to stop militarily a war of ideas. It is what established religion always does to protect itself against ridicule. It cannot fight, as Mark Twain asserted when he wrote the quip I quoted on the previous page, truth-revealing ridicule with reason.