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To: af_vet_1981

Luther had a good teacher: Rome.


2,924 posted on 10/21/2014 8:27:26 PM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees!)
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To: Torahman
Luther had a good teacher: Rome

Are you excusing and defending Luther's hatred of the Jews by claiming Rome taught him that, after he had broken with the Catholic Church, started his own religion, reached out to the Jews been rejected, and unleashed a furious and satanic hatred on the Jews ? Which denomination, sect, or group do you assemble with ?

Such defense of Luther is similar to the defense Julius Streicher tied at Nuremberg. The court was not persuaded and he was hanged.

DR. MARX: Apart from your weekly journal, and particularly after the Party came into power, were there any other publications in Germany which treated the Jewish question in an anti-Semitic way?

STREICHER: Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution. In the book The Jews and Their Lies, Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent's brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them...

The prevailing scholarly view since the Second World War is that the treatise exercised a major and persistent influence on Germany's attitude toward its Jewish citizens in the centuries between the Reformation and the Holocaust.[22] Four hundred years after it was written, the Nazis displayed On the Jews and Their Lies during Nuremberg rallies, and the city of Nuremberg presented a first edition to Julius Streicher, editor of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer, the newspaper describing it as the most radically antisemitic tract ever published.[23]

2,927 posted on 10/21/2014 8:58:54 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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