Here are some more of Luther's (attributed) sayings regarding reason (from the same page):
- Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spritual things, but--more frequently than not --struggles against the Divine Word.... [Said to be from Table Talk]
- Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God [Said to be from V, 1312]
- Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason. [Said to be from V, 425]
- Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads...."
- "If [women] become tired or even die, that does not matter. Let them die in childbirth--that is why they are there."
Yup, this is a one-of-a-kind thread. Another I can't believe it! placemarker.
And there are probably those around here who agree with this stuff.