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To: Skooz; RaceBannon
It has always been my understanding that Luther softened his attitudes towards Jews shortly before he died. Both "That Jesus Was Born a Jew," and his "Letter to Bernhard, a Converted Jew" were written after "On the Jews and Their Lies," (all were published in 1523).

Again... Luther's pamphlet on the Jews was published in 1543, only three years before Luther died. And, yes. Luther was always well disposed to Jews who CONVERTED to Christianity. As you note Luther's was a purely RELIGIOUS antisemtism, whereas the Nazis' was a RACIAL, and largely secular, antisemitism. (Nazis classified, and murdered, converts just like any other Jew.)

You needn't have pointed this out to me if you'd read my most recent reply to Race Bannon upthread, where I made exactly the same point, if in a different context.

288 posted on 08/20/2006 3:04:05 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
"That Jesus Was Born a Jew" was published in 1543 AFTER ""On the Jews and Their Lies." I mistyped. It happens.
291 posted on 08/20/2006 3:06:29 PM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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