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Subject: [HWE] Luther was a Huguenot ???????????
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:54:45 -0800


And hello and all that salutory greetings,

Somewhere recently, and I won't look it up for now, someone mentioned that the HWE topics should cover the time period from Luther onward. Or words similar.

Now to me, and I know, I know, folks may wish to jump up and gather around my grand auto de fete for me even suggesting such.. Luther was not a Huguenot.

He was a middle of the road, out of the way, Catholic monk.. dabbled in writing and for whatever the reason became some sort of folk hero toward the end of the Reformation.

All he ever wanted was for the Pope, and his cronies of the time, to get back to basics and try to be a little more humble. He also thought that doctrine of the time was heading in the wrong direction. Hence he protested..95 theses and all that.

It is my thinking that if one wishes to narrow..and I would be against such, indeed I would like to see it expanded to cover the Reformation period in general.. the time period of the HWE to simply Walloons and Huguenot..(Protestante) then maybe it should only go from Zwingli to around the late 1600's ?

So.. even though I do fear death by fire.. to say that Luther was a Huguenot , to me at least.. is wrong.

Now I will take cover and hide behind a Cathare descendent.. there must be one somewhere.

Kind Regards,
Peter Leroy

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