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If one has faith to hope and pray for Luther's repentance and redemption, go for it. It may be a kind of therapy to deal with the truth about his AntiSemitism. Here is an apparent Lutheran that learned about the dark side of Luther and encountered the cognitive dissonance from her Protestant friends "So I mentioned this on Facebook (because that’s how I roll), and was a little surprised by how quickly many of my friends rushed to defend Luther’s reputation. They said that everyone was anti-Semitic in those days, that Luther was frustrated after trying to convert the Jews, that this was all based on a misinterpretation of Scripture. Luther should not be remembered for this “flaw,” they said, but for his great contribution to Christian theology."

If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

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If one has faith to hope and pray for Luther's repentance and redemption, go for it.

Why would one do that? Luther died and was judged, not on his merit, but on Christ's. Rather pray for the living like yourself that hate would not destroy them.

Rather the cognitive dissonance shown on this subject, by some posters who harp on the AS of Luther and deny the AS by their church leadership, one that had effects at the time because of the secular power wielded by the papacy, exposes the rankest of hypocrisy.

With such defenders, it give new insight into how the priestly abuse scandal developed and sustained itself. When the acolytes of the abusers defend them and attack the victims at the first sign of discovery, it is reminiscent of the Wicked Witch of the West's flying monkey brigade.

I'll bold it for you in case you miss it: Again, when will or did the Catholic church shed its anti-semitic practice?

Every failure to answer, really does provide the answer to lurkers wondering about the intellectual honesty of the Catholic defenders.