The festering rot of tax free religious groups.
"He was raised a #Protestant and once worked as a roofer, but now serves as a priest in the Russian #Orthodox Church Outside #Russia (ROCOR) in Georgetown, #Texas, an offshoot of the mother church in Moscow."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30q5l8d4lro
12 May 1620: d. Mary Honywood [née Waters] aged 93 #otd Witness to, and 'sustainer' of #Protestant martyrs in the reign of Mary I. By the time of her death she had 114 grandchildren, 228 great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great-grandchildren (Colchester&Ipswich Museum Service)
28 Apr 1558: Walter Mylne executed in St. Andrews #otd - he was the last #Protestant to be burnt in #Scotland before the kingdom itself officially turned #Protestant
18 Apr 1587: John Foxe, martyrologist, d. at his house in Grub St #London #otd A key shaper of #English #Protestant identity
#DietrichBonhoeffer #pastor #christian #religion #hero #heroic #nazi #ww2 #hitler #martyr #german #germany #history #lutheran #protestant #peace
There are many heroes from WWII, and whenever I come across a name I’ve never heard of, I always like to publicise it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - A pastor and devoted Lutheran Christian who opposed the Nazi regime and simply wanted peace. Unfortunately, this kind and heroic man paid the ultimate price for his beliefs…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
1 Mar 1555: Thomas Leverous nominated to the bishopric of #Kildare #otd replacing the #Protestant Bishop Lancaster as part of Cardinal Pole & Mary I's plans for the #Irish Church
1 Mar 1546: George Wishart, itinerant #Protestant preacher, hanged & burnt at St. Andrews #otd #Scotland
John Knox decides that this is a good time to go into hiding.
16 Feb 1497: b. Philip Melanchthon, #Protestant theologian, co-formulator with #Luther of the Augsburg Confession #otd
28 Jan 1399: Richard Young, archdeacon of #Meath appointed #otd to consider the life & alleged miracles of Richard FitzRalph Archbishop of #Armagh.
FitzRalph has never been canonised, not least as he became a #Protestant pin-up in the 16th & 17thCs? (ParkerLibrary)
Something many Americans choose not to know about the Nazi period in Germany:
Hitler rose to power with the strong support of large numbers of German Christian leaders. Hitler came to power in a nation that was 95% Christian (63% Lutheran, 32% Catholic).
#Hitler #Nazis #churches #Christians #Catholic #Protestant #Trump #BishopBudde
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Pastors and priests whose sermons were considered in any way critical of the Nazi regime were reported to the authorities by people sitting in church to listen, to spy, to report.
If you Americans think we are not there now in our own time and place, if we think this could only have happened in Germany in the 1930s, then we're not seeing what's going on in our country now — with Christians leading the charge.
#Hitler #Nazis #Christians #Catholic #Protestant #Trump #BishopBudde #Bonhoeffer
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Bonhoeffer stated, by the way, that in the time he spent at Union Seminary in New York, he found the Black church in the US alive, spiritually profound, biblically faithful — but he found the white Christian churches in the US the opposite. He took back to Germany the inspiration he received from the Black church in the US and that was one of his guiding lights as he spoke out against the Nazis.
#Hitler #Nazis #Christians #Catholic #Protestant #Trump #BishopBudde #Bonhoeffer
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Just as Bishop Mariann Budde is now being attacked for speaking out.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was imprisoned and executed for speaking (and acting) against the German state as a Lutheran leader. In Austria, the lay Catholic Franz Jäggerstätter was imprisoned for refusing to enlist in the army because his conscience did not permit him to support the Nazis. Jäggerstätter was executed.
#Hitler #Nazis #Christians #Catholic #Protestant #Trump #BishopBudde #Bonhoeffer
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Protestant church leaders especially welcomed Hitler as a manly man anointed by God — they actually said and wrote this — who would purify the German nation and make it strong and manly again.
And what many Americans also choose not to know: when a very few courageous and faithful Christians chose to speak out, they were ruthlessly attacked by both the German state under Hitler and by their fellow German Christians.
#Hitler #Nazis #Christians #Catholic #Protestant #Trump #BishopBudde
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21 Jan 1609: d. Joseph Justus Scaliger, chronologer, #Protestant, whose work deeply influenced Archbishop James Ussher's chronology & the latter's conclusion that the world was created in 4004BC. It seems odd now, but it was very fine textual and scholarly work for the period.
11 Jan 1625: Pierre du Moulin, #French Huguenot supporter of an international #Protestant union & of James VI & I's aspirations in that regard presented to the sinecure rectory of Llanarmon-yn-Lâl Denbighshire #otd
7 Jan 1558: Thomas Wentworth hands over the keys of #Calais to the #French #otd and afterwards Thomas Molyneux, a #Protestant refugee from the former #English enclave establishes a colony of former residents there in Co. Meath
5 Dec 1560: d. Francois II (age 16) #otd leaving his wife Mary Queen #Scots in a tight spot - the #Protestant Lords of #Scotland invite her to return to the country
"A pagan doesn't need to know that they're a pagan, one might say — even if their adversary does."
Reformation Day Vs. Halloween: October 31
https://hyperallergic.com/961521/the-battle-between-halloween-and-reformation-day/ via Hyperallergic
Image: Piero di Cosimo via Koninklijke Brill online
#ReformationDay #Reformation #Protestantism #Protestant #Halloween #Paganism #Pagan #Europe #Art
