Dear Debbie... A note to the DNC Chair

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3. If you haven't watched the PBS special on Martin Luther, it's pretty good. His dad was a

coppersmith, (both parents practiced what we would call child abuse today) wanted young Martin to be a professional. So Martin went to law school, and one class short of graduating he had an experience which made him seek salvation. Martin was the kind of fella who threw himself 300% into anything he did, so he was a great student, and a devoted and faithful student of the church.

Salvation at that time was the Catholic Church, who took the position that you needed their services, and had to pay for them, else you were going to hell (kind of like a political party which insists you vote for them else your life will be so much worse). He joined an order in which they practiced self-flagellation because they thought it impeded the path. They sent him on a pilgrimage to Rome, where he realized that the Party, I mean the Church, was mostly a large accounting scheme run by businessmen who cared about money, not salvation for the masses.

Being a man of the people, and realizing that the Party, I mean the Church (darn keyboard) was getting in the way of saving the people, so he nailed a thesis with 95 bullet points to the door of the church and began to organize with others who cared about the people and their salvation instead of making the Church richer.

Is a pretty good show.