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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
True enough.

But there was a strong current of antisemitism present in Germany that he tapped into making reference to “my Saviors blood upon the cross”.

He called them “capitalists” to appeal to atheist socialist antisemitism.

There wasn't and wouldn't have been a current of thought that he wouldn't have appealed to - in my opinion - that could drum up antisemetic sentiment.

Luther tapped into the same sentiment in his book “On the Jews and their Lies”.

But I wouldn't go around blaming Hitler on Luther - that is a Godwin's Rule leap that should be beyond any rational mind.

114 posted on 05/21/2011 9:03:02 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

evil men will say whatever they have to, or blame whoever they have to, in order to perform their evil deeds. Hitler is Exhibit A.


118 posted on 05/21/2011 9:09:48 AM PDT by one Lord one faith one baptism
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