<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->..The church founders and their initiates must have always known how to read the satire in the NT. Otherwise I doubt that it would have been preserved intact. In fact, I think these people, whomever they may be, revel in the knowledge and the power it gives them.
I have spent some time studying the Latin Vulgate in contrast with the King James Version. It seems the two map pretty consistently. You can see the translations in online bibles, and it is clear to me that the preservation of all of the jokes is present as though carefully preserved.
<b>Martin Luther now appears to me to have been a priest who was never part of the inner circle, and drew conclusions that must have been the cause of much laughter among the prelates in Rome. </b>His cluelessness created what has become modern Protestantism, and has subjected his followers to a most laughable system of belief. It turns out he wasn't very bright after all.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have spent some time studying the Latin Vulgate in contrast with the King James Version. It seems the two map pretty consistently. You can see the translations in online bibles, and it is clear to me that the preservation of all of the jokes is present as though carefully preserved.
<b>Martin Luther now appears to me to have been a priest who was never part of the inner circle, and drew conclusions that must have been the cause of much laughter among the prelates in Rome. </b>His cluelessness created what has become modern Protestantism, and has subjected his followers to a most laughable system of belief. It turns out he wasn't very bright after all.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->