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Re: Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise.
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lugnet.general, lugnet.castle
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Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:37:29 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Johannes Koehler wrote:
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Hello!
Because I am not pagan but Lutheran I’m not celebrating Halloween but
Reformation Day. That’s the day when we commemorate the start of the so
called Reformation that began with Dr. Martin Luther nailing 95 theses
against the practice of indulgence to the door of the Schlosskirche in
Wittenberg on October 31th anno 1517.
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jojo/Luther/luther1.jpg)
After he did that he got some trouble with the Pope in Rome for His Holiness
didn’t like too much what Luther sermonised against some essential usages to
encash money for the church. So Luther was labeled “heretic” and
excommunicated unless he recanted his scripts. Also the emperor of the Holy
Roman Empire, Charles V., catholic himself of course and in his capacity as
Roman Emperor protector of the Christendom, was not willing to let either the
troups of Süleyman the Magnificent nor some monk from Wittenberg to imperil
the unity of the Holy Catholic Church. So he aimed to simply impose the Ban
of the Empire against Luther. But Luther’s own souvereign, Frederic the Wise,
Elector of Saxony, persuaded the emperor to give Luther the chance to defend
himself before any imperial verdict against him. Frederic even more wanted to
obviate the emperor to hand over Luther to the Inquisition because that was a
byword for a death sentence and because as a German it was Luther’s right to
be protected against any tribunal outside of his own country. Furthermore the
emperor had to grant safe conduct to and from the trial. So Charles summoned
Luther to the Imperial Diet of Worms:
We are looking at the high hall, on the left we see the Emperor enthroned,
gatherd around him in two 1/4 arches are the Electors watching the trial (it
should be seven rather than six but that would have lead to unwanted
asymmetry), the hall is filled with several dignitaries from aristocracy,
church and from the imperial towns, along with some trial observers from
reuters and the UN... In the middle of the hall there’s a table, laying on it
Luther’s books and scripts laying that he is asked to recant. In front of the
red carpet is standing Johann Eck, the theologian who represents the emperor
in the case, on the other end of the desk we see Luther himself. He is
declaring that he isn’t able to recant his scripts because they are based on
God’s Word, so recanting them means recanting the Holy Bible. On the other
hand, if he was convinced by Scripture or plain reason that he was wrong he
would be the first to throuw his flawed scripts into the fire.
Well, nobody was able to disprove his scripts so Luther did not recant. He
travelled back to Wittenberg and while he was on his journey the emperor
imposed the Ban of the Empire against him and outlawed him. So everybody was
allowed to kill him without threat of punishment.
I am Finished!
Bye
Jojo
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Those models are fantastic! My church also celebrated reformation Sunday today.
It is quite rare for anyone in my family to enjoy LEGO MOCs nearly as much as I
do, but this model was the exception. I have posted about this on my blog
(Bulbous Blog), my brother has posted about it on
his blog (40 Bicycles) and I’m sure all our
readers will really appreciate it. When my brother uploads the post, it will be
the very first time he has talked about Lego on his blog. Just the 95 thesis
model would have been excellent, but you made all the other models as well. A
fantastic group of models, I must say.
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