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To: Mrs. Don-o

Naw.

Luther would likely just chuckle and say, “Told you so. Be glad you’re not being burned at the stake like the Pope did in my day.”

Except, you know, in German.


99 posted on 01/28/2020 9:47:47 PM PST by Luircin
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To: Luircin
Well, I give Luther his due respect for declaring himself, early in his reforming career, to be against the burning of fellow Christians in principle, even if they differed in their expression of the Faith.

But...

He later made a U-turn against the Anabaptist peasant rebels, and the Jews.

"In two of his later works, Luther expressed antagonistic, violent views towards Jews, and called for the burnings of their synagogues and their deaths. His rhetoric was not directed at Jews alone, but also towards Catholics, Anabaptists, and nontrinitarian Christians." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

Luther: "Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay, and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel."

In 1526 Luther wrote: "I, Martin Luther, have during the rebellion slain all the peasants, for it was I who ordered them to be struck dead."

Also quoted in Wikipedia: "Luther advocated setting synagogues on fire, destroying Jewish prayerbooks, forbidding rabbis from preaching, seizing Jews' property and money, and smashing up their homes, so that these "envenomed worms" would be forced into labor or expelled "for all time". In Robert Michael's view, Luther's words "We are at fault in not slaying them" amounted to a sanction for murder."

:o/ Well, there was a lot of that going around at the time >:o\

--- none of it was justified, and everyone (of any religious faith, or none) who engaged in oppression and murder, will face the same Judge and have to answer for it in the same way.

109 posted on 01/29/2020 8:51:33 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Let us commend ourselves, and one another, and our whole life, unto Christ Our God.")
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