Luther’s writings on the Jews were abhorrent, but before getting all haughty and spouting off, I caution you to consider the source of Luther’s anti-Semitism. He was a Catholic priest who was educated by Rome and lived in a society dominated by Rome. Moreover, Luther was roughly 34 when he hammered the 95 Theses to the Wittenberg Door and only lived to age 62, not near long enough to rid himself of the cultural detritus, superstitions, errors, and heresies it had taken Rome more than a millennia to accumulate.
Well stated, and received in full and without prejudice. Thank you.
If his writings convince,people he was anti jew, then his other writings should equally convince people he was equally anti german, his own people. He didnt spare his angst on them either.
He spent his last years plotting to persecute the Jews. He wrote down the blueprint for the Holocaust which his countrymen implemented five centuries later. It is abhorrent that he is venerated and highlights the illegitimacy of the Protestant re-formation of the Christian religion.
So Luther was able to think for himself, this brilliant man who led people to the true church of Protestantism, somehow couldn’t rid himself of his anti-Semitism because he was young and heavily influenced by the Roman Catholic Church.
Yeah, that logic stands up.