Recientemente he vuelto a leer la magistral obra del emérito escritor católico, Don Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, Historia de los Heterodoxos Españoles, donde daba un concienzudo repaso a los seguidores de Lutero y Calvino en España. Tras su lectura, mi opinión sobre estos dos cismáticos personajes no es de admiración por supuesto. De siempre me resultaron ambiguas y extrañas sus delirantes doctrinas. Reflejada en Lutero en sus 95 Tesis, para Lutero todo se atribuye a la fe, nada a las obras. Todo es merito de Jesucristo, el hombre nada puede hacer, mientras para el Catolicismo la regeneración es obra divina y humana a la vez.
Lutero tuvo grandes enfrentamientos teológicos con Calvino. Lutero afirmaba que Dios es autor del pecado. Calvino creyó siempre lo contrario. Lutero no fue una persona con ideas progresistas y al favor del pueblo. La reforma triunfo debido al apoyo de la nobleza alemana de la época que le interesaba controlar este movimiento religioso. Los príncipes protestantes asesinaron a miles de campesinos que luchaban contra las desigualdades sociales de la época. Sus crímenes fueron apoyados y alentado por Lutero.
El dijo, “Quien pueda ha de abatir, degollar o apuñalar al campesino rebelde, en publico o en privado, pues nada es mas venenoso y nocivo que un rebelde. Ha de matarlo igual que hay que matar a un perro rabioso.” Mas Lutero tenia una faceta que siempre se ha tratado de ocultar. Esta era su fanático y visceral antisemitismo, que quedo reflejado en un pequeño librito titulado Sobre Los Judíos Y Sus Mentiras, escrito en 1543, en donde llega a escribir salvajemente, que deberían quemarse sus Sinagogas, destruir sus libros de oración, prohibir predicar a sus rabinos, aplastar y destruir sus casas.
Dijo de los judíos, “Sus alientos apestan por el oro y la plata de los infieles, porque no hay gente sobre la tierra que sea, haya sido o será, mas avara que ellos. Entonces sepan, mis queridos cristianos, que después del diablo, no hay nada mas agrio, mas ponzoñoso, mas vehemente y enemigo que un verdadero judío que realmente desea ser judío.” Estas palabras pudieran haber sido dicha por Joseph Goebbels por ejemplo en pleno apogeo del nazismo. Mas la ironía es que fue dicha 400 años antes y nada menos que por Martin Lutero, el gran reformador protestante del siglo XVI, el que rompió la Iglesia Católica y el precursor de tantas calamidades y estériles guerras religiosa contra la Católica España.
Sobre Calvino poco se puede decir que no dijera el gran Thomas Jefferson, quien dijo, “Calvino es ateo, cosa que yo nunca seré. Pues su religión era diabólica. Si algún hombre ha rendido culto a un Dios falso, ese hombre fue el.” Según Calvino, el influjo del Espiritu Santo supone la elección a priori que Dios hizo de los hombres, unos para ser salvado y otros para la eterna condenación. A los predestinados a la vida eterna los auxilia con medios externos e internos. Quien no tiene los externos, tampoco tiene los internos y esta predestinado a la condenación.
Dicho de otro modo, las riquezas materiales son signo de elección divina. El núcleo duro de la Teología Calvinista se basa en la imputación de todos los actos del género humano a su Creador, siendo Él, en primera y ultima instancia, quien es la fuente, lo mismo del criminal que de la víctima. A la postre Dios es el autor de todos los crímenes y virtudes de los Actores de la Historia Universal. Conclusión el fanatismo una vez mas impregna todo lo que concierne a la religión. Aun asin no se ha encontrado nada para substituir las aflicciones del alma.
Recently I have reread the majestic work of the eminent Catholic writer, Don Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, History of the Heterodoxical Spanish, where he conscientiously criticised the followers of Lutero and Calvino in Spain. After reading his work, my opinion regarding these two cysmatic persons is of course not one of admiration. As always their delirious doctrines seem ambiguous and strange. Reflected in the 95 Thesis of Lutero, to him everything is attributed to faith, and not to the effort. Everything is to the merit of Jesus Christ, where man cannot accomplish anything, while for Catholicism the regeneration is divine work and humane at the same time.
Lutero had big confrontations in terms of theology with Calvino. Lutero affirmed that God is the author of sin. Calvino believed the contrary. Lutero was not a person with progressive ideas and in favour of the people. The reform was successful due to the support from the German nobility of the era, who were interested in controlling this religious movement. The Protestant princes assassinated thousands of farmers who struggled against the inequality in society during that era. Their crimes were supported and fueled by Lutero.
He said, “Whoever can, should defeat, slit the throats or stab at the rebel farmer in public or in private, as nothing can be more venomous and harmful than a rebel. He has to be killed just like a dog with rabies.” In addition Lutero had a facet that he had always tried to hide. That was the fact that he was a fanatic and visceral anti-Semitic, which was reflected in the little book titled About the Jews and their Lies, written in 1543, where he savagely wrote that the synagogues should be burnt, their prayer books to be destroyed, their rabbis to be prohibited from preaching, their homes to be crushed and destroyed.
He said of the Jews, “Their breath reeks of gold and silver of the heathen, because there does not exist another people on this earth who are, have been or will be more miserly than them. So let it be known, my dear Christians, that after the Devil, there is nothing more sour, scheming, more vehement and more of a foe than a true Jew who really desires to be a Jew.” These words could have been spoken by Joseph Goebbels for example, right during the height of Nazism. In addition the irony was that this was 400 years ago and written by the very Martin Lutero, the great reformer Protestant of 16th century, he who had broken down the Catholic Church and the precursor of so many calamities and futile religious wars against Catholic Spain.
In regards to Calvino, there is little to add to that the great Thomas Jefferson had said, “Calvino is atheist, which is something that I will never be. His religion is diabolical. If there were a man who had worshipped a false God, he would be the man.” According to Calvino, the influx of the Holy Spirit is the basis there God had made his selection a priori of mankind, some to be saved while others to be eternally condemned. For those who are predestined to eternal life, they will be assisted externally and internally. Those who do not have the external help, nor will they have internal help, and they will be predestined to condemnation.
Expressed in another way, the material riches are a sign of divine selection. The hard nucleus of Calvinistic Theology is based upon the imputation of all the acts of humankind towards its Creator, being He, who in first and last instances, He who is the source, the same as the criminal as the victim. As a final note, God is the author of all the crimes and virtues of the Actors of the Universal History. Conclusion, fanatism once more infiltrates all that concerns the religions. Even then we have yet to find something to the substitute the afflictions of the soul.
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