Thus, Stanton asserts that the Canon Law consists of different moral codes for men and women. ... All rulers/kings in Europe became Christians. ... This oppression and discrimination against women which denies them equal rights with men is a clear violation of the rights of women under God's decree of equality for both men and women in Galatians 3:28. ... The Vatican obliged the leaders of the nuns to enforce the Roman Catholic Church's will that condemns abortion on all grounds on individual members. ... Consequently, women in the Roman Catholic Church have no say in almost all matt...

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"...the five Vicars of Christ who ruled the Holy See during Magellan's lifetime [1480-1521] were the least Christian of men; the least devout, least scrupulous, least compassionate, and among the least chaste - lechers, almost without exception. ... It was the largest landowner in Europe and all the kings of Christendom were considered vassals of the pope and with this power came corruption. ... He believed that what one construes in their conscience while reading the Bible is how they should live their life since the Bible has all of the answers. "All of this served to undermine the...

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Most serious of all was Luther's reduction of the mass to the Lord's Supper. ... For the theory of transubstantiation, it is there all the time. ... Luther did what most kings would fear to do. ... However, this is the task which Luther undertook against all odds. ... Rather than repent this in the least, I have determined to persist in that fervent zeal and to despise the judgment of men, following the example of Christ who in his zeal called his opponents 'a blood of vipers,' 'blind fools,' 'hypocrites'. . . ...

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The same was true in England, but without such a negative consequence as the English kings were devout patrons, not power-politics. ... He was ruler of all the land and maintained his unquestioned power throughout the land by declaring the church a Landeskirche of which he was the supreme defender. ... William used the opportunity to keep the Church at bay and assumed personal control over all church politics, holding elections in his own chapel. ... Although the treaty did humiliate Barbarossa and forced him to kneel before the Pope and accede to his divine superiority, Alexander permitte...

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