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Man it's flat out here!
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Central Illinois
Posts: 2,572
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Hi 718Rider,
Yes Amen for the Reformation!
We visited the town of Wittenberg in 1997. I've stood in front of the doorway where Luther nailed his 95 Thesis. I also went up into the Church Tower which is just a few steps to the right of those doors. At the top I met a family from Vietnam. They stayed in East Germany after the fall of the DDR.
It seems the East German Communists imported labor from Angola, Cuba, and Vietnam because they had very little mechanization/automation and therefore need more laborers to do manufacturing.
I'll also never forget my conversation with an elderly Gent (Herr Werner Groeger in Niederoderwitz) who explained to me how his son waited 10 years for delivery after ordering a new Trabant. The East Germans were fond of saying "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".
As a protestant I'm grateful for the Reformation and Martin Luther's boldness...especially considering that Johannes Huss was earlier burned at the stake for a similar stand against the leadership in Rome.
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"What I've tried to do in the two books I've done, Signature in the Cell and Darwin's Doubt, is to show just how weak the materialist's hand is in explaining the key events in the history of life. ... We would encourage people to roll up their sleeves, do their homework on this." Stephen Meyer PHD
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