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I have significant theological disagreements with Luther, but I recognize his monumental contributions.

As do others; yet he is a false apostle; he should not be venerated or praised.

The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German theologians and clergy made use of the sixteenth-century writings by Martin Luther on Jews and Judaism to reinforce the racial antisemitism and religious anti-Judaism already present among Protestants. Focusing on key figures, Probst’s study makes clear that a significant number of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and political persuasions employed Luther’s texts with considerable effectiveness in campaigning for the creation of a “de-Judaized” form of Christianity. Probst shows that even the church most critical of Luther’s anti-Jewish writings reaffirmed the antisemitic stereotyping that helped justify early Nazi measures against the Jews.

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Papists venerate, not Protestants.

I will remind you that King David committed adultery and then tried to cover-up the resulting pregnancy. When that gambit failed he engineered the death of Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah the Hittite. Despite his flaws and grievous sins, God called him a man after his own heart and David is counted as one of the greats of the faith in Hebrews 11.