Jewish Uproar Over ELCA’s [and other moribund mainline denominations'] Attack On Israel

Exposing the ELCA ^ | 10/13/12 | Dan Skogen

[Cronos]

There was no "climate of Euro anti-semitism" -- anti-Jewishness varied from country to country

In the 1500s there were no Jews in England -- they had been chased out a couple of centuries earlier

In the Holy Roman Empire Jews were under the personal protection of the Emperor, but that didn't help much. It's rather interesting, but the Jews were more persecuted in Germany, while in Italy or the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth they were not -- perhaps because while Italy and P-L were heavily Catholic, they were also places where the secular authorities allowed freedom of religion.

So, in Luther's immediate area there was anti-jewishness, but not in nearby regions (Poland, Italia)

[Cronos]

Luther’s old age frustration was because he saw his reformation hijacked by two groups — by radical reformers like Calvinists, Unitarians, then Anabaptists etc. and by political forces.

[SJackson]

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