“Who Were Dominic de Guzman and Sir Thomas More?” - By Darryl Eberhart

Prepared by Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT Newsletters // Website: www.toughissues.org
A 1-Page Handout // All emphasis is mine unless otherwise stated. // January 21, 2011

QUESTION: Who were Dominic de Guzman and Sir Thomas More?

ANSWER: Dominic de Guzman (1170-1221) and Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) were faithful Roman Catholics who were later canonized (i.e., declared “saints”) by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. These two so-called “saints” have a whole lot of innocent blood on their hands!

Dominic de Guzman was born in 1170; he died in 1221. He became a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, and in 1215 he founded the Roman Catholic Dominican Order (a mendicant order of friars or nuns). Dominic de Guzman used to debate some of the Bible-believing Christian preachers of his day. Failing to persuade these Bible-believing Christians with his words and threats, Dominic de Guzman decided that the sword and the flame would be better “debate tools”. The Dominican Order that he founded was the first Roman Catholic religious order to run the “holy” Inquisition that tortured and butchered human beings made in God’s image!

Thomas More was born in 1478; he was executed in 1535. He is listed in various dictionaries as an English statesman and writer. One book describes him as an English humanist. As “lord chancellor” of England, Thomas More ran afoul of King Henry VIII for refusing to accept Henry as the head of a separate “Church of England”, and was executed in 1535. Sir Thomas More was canonized (i.e., declared a “saint”) in 1935.

David W. Daniels, on page 77 of his book, “Did The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible?” (2005), tells us this about Sir Thomas More: “‘Saint’ Thomas More (1478-1535) is honored by [Ed.: Roman] Catholics for his ‘godly fairness’, politeness, sense of humor and intelligence.

But he had only HATRED [Ed.: emphasis in the original] for Martin Luther, [Ed.: for English Reformer and Bible translator William] Tyndale, and anyone who loved Gods words! He burned Bible-believers at the stake and tortured them in his own house!

He [Ed.: Sir Thomas More] paid big bucks to get someone to betray [Ed.: William] Tyndale [Ed.: who was later executed in 1536 on the orders of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church]. In our money, it would be like a ‘million-dollar hit’.”

How could the Roman Catholic Church declare such evil monsters as Dominic de Guzman and Sir Thomas More “saints”? Can you believe the Roman Catholic Church wants to declare anti-Jewish, pro-Nazi Pope Pius XII – a man who (1) supported Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the other Fascist nations of Europe during World War II; and, (2) appointed Roman Catholic clergy to run the Vatican Ratlines, helping many Nazi and Fascist war criminals escape capture at the end of World War II – a “saint”? Can you believe the Roman Catholic Church wants to declare Pope John Paul II – a man who (1) helped to cover up the murder of his predecessor (Pope John Paul I); (2) protected then-Bishop Paul Marcinkus (then-head of the Vatican Bank) from Italian authorities concerning “irregularities” at the Vatican Bank; and, (3) did as much as he could to cover up the sex scandals involving Roman Catholic clergy – a “saint”? Torturing people, murdering people, protecting war criminals, protecting clerics accused of sexual abuse, etc. – are these some of the qualifications for “sainthood” in the Roman Catholic Church? What shameless audacity it is to declare such men “saints”!

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT DOMINIC DE GUZMAN, SIR THOMAS MORE, AND OTHER ROMAN CATHOLICS WHO PERSECUTED BIBLE BELIEVERS:

1. Read the 317-page paperback book, “Rome and the Bible”, by David Cloud. To order this book via credit card, please call toll-free 1-866-295-4143.

2. Read the 159-page paperback book, “Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?”, by David W. Daniels. To order this book via credit card, please call Chick Publications at 1-909-987-0771.

3. Watch the 3-hour color DVD documentary, “A Lamp in the Dark”, by Adullam Films. To order this DVD documentary via credit card, please call toll-free 1-888-780-5049.

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