ONE MORE LOOK AT THE REAL EVIL OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH JUST A SMALL GLIMPS AT THE EXTENSIVE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF Ulrich Zwingli Ulrich Zwingli was born on New Year’s Day, 1484 in Wildhaus, Switzerland. Although not as well-known as some other Reformers of his day, like Calvin and Luther, he nonetheless began a large Reformation movement that resulted in the demise of Catholicism in Switzerland. Zwingli’s beliefs were simple and straightforward: the Bible is truth; anything not in the Bible is not truth. It was the simplicity of this message that garnered him great public support from his people in Switzerland; and eventually outrage, and even war, from Roman officials. Although hugely popular with the Swiss, the officials in Rome had great animosity toward Zwingli and the Protestant movement in Switzerland. In 1529, they began a wide campaign to end Protestantism in Switzerland. Their efforts began with an attempt to instill a false sense of security by suing the Swiss for “peace.” What in fact the Roman Catholic Church did was to buy themselves time to strengthen their troops for battle against the Swiss, as Zwingli suspected and warned against all along. In 1531, the Roman Catholic Church declared war against the Protestant Swiss in a sudden surprise attack. Zwingli joined the Swiss troops as chaplain. The Swiss lost decisively and Zwingli was killed at the battle of Kappel, his body defiled, on October 11, 1531.
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