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.
While I enjoy the site, I disagree with this particular outlook. Many of FR detractors attempt to use his AS as a means to disparage what he taught in general by referencing the harsh language, when harsh language was the order of the day. To find harsh language in a bull from the period shouldn't surprise anyone. I also consider the tone of the bull consistent with an org that has lost its secular power for good, and is about to be used by kings and nationalists as a pawn in the ongoing struggle for empires.
While the examples the author used had no 'Catholic cyber defenders', there are plenty that espouse the same viewpoint. Watch any thread around here when the subject comes up. The historically challenged will be there with the accusation.