[xone]

I reread your analysis, and it is very well done. However, there are cyber defenders of Rome who tout that very thing, (Luther’s connection to the Holocaust)right here on FR. One right here on this thread. The other only this week. But since one must ‘prove his point’, they probably don’t count in that total either.

[edwinland]

Thanks for your reply. We have established, based solely on Lutheran blogs reviewing books by Lutherans, that the idea that "the Third Reich began with Luther" originated with the Nazis and was propounded to Europe intially by prominent Lutherans and in the US by prominent Protestants and a couple of Jews. However, the writer of the article you posted ignores all of this Lutheran history written and posted by Lutherans, and focuses his ire on "Rome's Cyber defenders", all of this as a reason to post a biased presentation of a Papal bull from the middle ages, closing with

"So when Rome's cyber-defenders bring up Luther's attitude toward the Jews, respond back with Decet Romanum, and ask them if they think the bull disproves the Roman church.

It would seem to me that by focusing onto defenders of the "Roman church" all of the ire that (according to the Lutheran author of the book favorably reviewed by the Lutheran blogger) should instead be directed at Nazis, prominent German Lutherans, the Church of England and mainline US protestants, the author says more about his own relationship with the Catholic Church than he does about Luther's relationship with the Holocaust.