16 Feb 1497: b. Philip Melanchthon, #Protestant theologian, co-formulator with #Luther of the Augsburg Confession #otd
16 Feb 1497: b. Philip Melanchthon, #Protestant theologian, co-formulator with #Luther of the Augsburg Confession #otd
Jeg sier ikke nei til jobb. #protestant
@DemocracyMattersALot The origin of the #Trump coalition stems from the #Reagan #Southern strategy on the heels of #LBJ resignation following the Civil Rights Act. It is amazing how quickly and effectively white #Protestant churches saturated the #South since the Civil War and it is no coincidence the #South is Trump country.
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.
Today in Labor History January 21, 1525: Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz and George Blaurock founded the Swiss Anabaptist movement by baptizing each other and breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. The Anabaptists were considered Radical Reformers. They preached against hate, killing, violence, taking oaths, participating in use of force or any military actions and against participation in civil government. They also believed in separation of church and state. However, some Anabaptists went even further, like those in the Munster Commune, who called for the absolute equality of man in all matters, including the distribution of wealth. They called upon the poor of the region to join them in sharing all the wealth of the town. Many also believed in polygamy and free love. Not surprisingly, both the Roman Catholics and the nascent Lutherans persecuted them heavily. This history is wonderfully portrayed in the epic novel, “Q” by the Italian fiction collective, Luther Blissett.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasants #protestant #Reformation #LutherBlissett #anabaptist #equality #freelove #communal #polygamy #lutheran #books #novel #fiction #historicalfiction #author #writer #collective #freelove @bookstadon
@KimPerales Never before in white #American history have white #Ken and #Karen parents and grandparents tried to control their descendants to this extent. It used to be wealthy business executives would send their kids to Phillips-Exeter then the Ivy League. Now every white #Protestant muggle sends their kids to #Christian Academy then #Hillsdale University building a country full of white #christofascists who don't know how to do anything except scream on #YouTube.
John Calvin's Grave in Geneva, Switzerland
A modest grave marks the final resting place of one of the world's most influential religious figures.#protestant #religion #graves #gravestones #section-Atlas
John Calvin's Grave
The Full History of Christmas From Jesus's Birth to Modern Celebrations | Speeches N Stories
#christmashistory #jesuschrist #nativityscene #christmastraditions #historyofchristmas #december25th #holidayseason #faithandtradition #merrychristmas #christianity #jesus #christian #catholic #protestant #christmascarol #christiansongs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St-tDNJh2Cg
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
The Full History of Christmas From Jesus's Birth to Modern Celebrations | Speeches N Stories
#christmashistory #jesuschrist #nativityscene #christmastraditions #historyofchristmas #december25th #holidayseason #faithandtradition #merrychristmas #christianity #jesus #christian #catholic #protestant #christmascarol #christiansongs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St-tDNJh2Cg
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Goodness, what do I know about my #family history, that can be recapitulated in readable toots?
We're a mostly non-religious #Protestant Irish family - #ChurchOfIreland - with main roots in what's now the #RepublicofIreland.
Non-religious we may be, but my Grandad (mother's father), Brian Snow, was a #CoI archdeacon working mainly in the west of #Ireland. He came to his vocation in his forties. He was quite high-church, and extremely #ecumenical, and that was much appreciated by his #Catholic neighbours and friends. He specialised in pastoral work - helping families with problems, visiting the sick and elderly, and so on. I remember being blessed by him at a service when I was a child, kneeling at the altar after communion. I'm not a member of the church, and I was too young to take communion in any case. But mainly I remember buzzing around County #Limerick with him in his Ford Fiesta, visiting people and being given cups of tea and biscuits by his parishioners.