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There have been enough straw men thrown around with respect to Luther to feed a large heard of cattle for a day. Rome, for some odd reason, enjoys taking a few oddball quotes of Luther out of context (OK, he had more than a few) and use them to characterize the Lutheran church without realizing that there is a whole slew of Lutheran theology written after Luther which clarifies and expands on Luther. You all always attack Luther, but are never willing to engage Martin Chemnitz and his massive critique of the Council of Trent or Johannes Gerhard or any of the other excellent Lutheran theologians that came after Luther.

So, here one of the many straw men: Luther rid of the Bible of the Deuterocanonical books. So why did he include these books in his German translation of the Bible? To add on to this point is a challenge: tell me where in the Lutheran Confessions (the Book of Concord) do we state that the Deuterocanonical books are not to be included in the Bible?

If you want to know my honest opinion, when you all (Roman Catholics) complain about people not understanding or knowing enough about your faith (which, in many cases is true)then send similarly ignorant slings, breaking the Eighth Commandment happily as you go, your complaining is weak. It sounds more like whining. Some of us, believe it or not, actually do have respect for Catholicism and, if you engage us without the standard "Luther sucks!" mantra, you might actually find out we have more in common than you think.