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Well, you project whatever you want to from your childhood.

Meanwhile, Luther wrote what he wrote - and the LCMS’ curricular purview is what it is, as they ICONify the drunken anti-Semite.

You clearly feel very betrayed, but oddly you continue to believe much of Luther’s teaching. You might want to ponder just how people can be so right in some areas and yet so wrong in others. It would be helpful to see this in yourself.

Meanwhile, Luther wrote what he wrote - and the LCMS’ curricular purview is what it is, as they ICONify the drunken anti-Semite.

I'm amazed (though I should not be with the example of the Pharisees and Sadducees) when one professes to believe in God, claims to believe and follow the Bible as the rule of faith and doctrine, and publicly defends Martin Luther once they know of his antisemitic views.

It seems to me that one does this because one's faith is threatened; if Luther was not saved then his whole doctrinal paradigm is in doubt; so one willingly and willfully chooses to defend Luther. It reminds me of one arguing that Esau should have inherited the blessing instead of Jacob. One cannot follow the LORD God of Israel and a false prophet. It is not as if the Messiah did not warn over and over again.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

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Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

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Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Matthew, Catholic chapter seven, Protestant verses fifteen to twenty seven

Hebrews, Catholic chapter twelve, Protestant verses fourteen to seventeen

First John, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verses seven to eleven

as authorized, but not authored, by King James