http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Luther_on_Jews.html
Martin Luther: The Jews and Their Lies
(1543)
...What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? Since they live among us, we dare not tolerate their conduct, now that we are aware of their lying and reviling and blaspheming. If we do, we become sharers in their lies, cursing and blasphemy. Thus we cannot extinguish the unquenchable fire of divine wrath, of which the prophets speak, nor can we convert the Jews. With prayer and the fear of God we must practice a sharp mercy to see whether we might save at least a few from the glowing flames. We dare not avenge ourselves. Vengeance a thousand times worse than we could wish them already has them by the throat. I shall give you my sincere advice:
First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians. For whatever we tolerated in the past unknowingly and I myself was unaware of it will be pardoned by God. But if we, now that we are informed, were to protect and shield such a house for the Jews, existing right before our very nose, in which they lie about, blaspheme, curse, vilify, and defame Christ and us (as was heard above), it would be the same as if we were doing all this and even worse ourselves, as we very well know.
Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God.
Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them...
Yes, Luther was a virulent anti-Semite. While he believed the scripture that tells us that salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ, and that faith in the truth impacted the whole world, he failed to take God’s irrevocable promises towards the nation of Israel just as literally.
This was a grievous, bloody error on his part, one that is still being paid for today.
Isn’t it funny how what you believe can affect not just your own destiny, but the destiny of many generations yet to come?
But, I’m not sure I understand why you posted that to me. Was it to somehow show that Christians are just as bad as Muslims, or what?
Still comparing the reformation of 600 years ago to modern day muslim butchery and intolerance? How quaint.
Please bring up the crusades and the inquisition. We must all recognize that Christians are no better then the madrassas that incubate terrorism and thus have no grounds on which to criticize 911, the slow made-for-video beheading of Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg, the stonings and burnings and bombings and hijackings, etc. And of course the murder of any Jew of any age in any sitiation.