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Martin Luther and Protestantism from 1521-1946
Martin Luther O.S.A* (1483-1546) was a German professor of theology, a priest (ordained 1507), Augustinian monk, and influential Protestant Reformation. However, he is best known for nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenberg Castle Church door in 1517. In 1521 he was summoned by Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519-58) to attend on the 16th to 18th April 1521 the court of the Imperial Diet of Worms (Assembly of Worms—German: Reichstag zu Worms) on Charges of heresy. Luther’s patron Prince Frederick III, Elector of Saxony obtained an agreement that if Luther appeared he would be promised safe passage to and from the meeting. This guarantee was essential after the treatment six years earlier of Jan Hus (1369-1415), who was tried and executed at the Council of Constance in 1415 despite a promise of safe-conduct. (*Order of Saint Augustine.)
After the hearing, private conferences were held to determine Luther’s fate, but he was not arrested at Worms. Through negotiations by his Prince, Frederick III (1463-1525), Luther had been given a letter of safe conduct to and from the hearing. After his dismissal, he departed for his home in Wittenberg. However, fearing for Luther’s safety, Frederick III sent men to fake a highway attack and abduct Luther, hiding him away at Wartburg Castle. On May 25, 1521, the Edict of Worms decree by Emperor Charles V: For this reason, we forbid anyone from this time forward to dare, either by words or by deeds, to receive, defend, sustain, or favour the said Martin Luther. On the contrary, we want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic, as he deserves, to be brought personally before us, or to be securely guarded until those who have captured him inform us, whereupon we will order the appropriate manner of proceeding against the said, Luther. Those who will help in his capture will be rewarded generously for their good work. The rest is history!
But what of the man Luther?
He was lude, rude, bigoted, antiSemitic and a student of scatology and mostly what he wrote and spoke was to do with faeces and the anus. What is more, he wrote his 95 theses while on the toilet/Scheißhaus, a place he spent hours with his chronic constipation. His hatred of the Jews is legendary and showed up in his writings. With his Christian followers today unaware that their founding father’s work was used by the Nazi’s during WWII. (See Nuremberg below.)
When it comes to the Christian religion with its age-old penchant for killing, counterfeit, propaganda, deceit, hypocrisy, bigotry and its anti-humanity stance, there is not much really to choose between the old Catholicism (380 CE) and the new Protestant faiths (1521 CE). Other than the Protestants declining six Apocrypha books, which still leaves their Bible very similar if not entwined with that of the Catholic. However, Protestantism, in its short history, has fragmented out of all proportion to form tens of thousands of denominations.
The separation between the two has been bloody and violent, with massive loss of life on both sides. With violent sectarian clashes throughout the centuries on both the New World and Old World continents.
Two of the world’s greatest bloody haters of Humanity have come from the hierarchy of Protestantism during the very beginning of the Reformation. Luther the foul-mouthed bigot, who wanted the death penalty for those he saw as the enemy. The other was a French theologian Jehan Cauvin better known in the Englisce speaking world as John Calvina. A sadistic premeditated killer of men that stood in the way of him or his God.
Christians in a rush to celebrate the 500 years of Protestantism, were wrong historically to choose 2017, at that time Luther was still practising Catholicism, May 25th 2021 would be more historically correct for the 500th anniversary!
In 1525 Luther Married a Nun he had saved and they had six children together, his enemies at Rome said the marriage was unlawful and it was incestuous! However, that is another story!
NUREMBERG, 1946
In 1946, Julius Streicher was on trial for his life. He had published the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer and had been captured at the end of World War II. The Allies put him on trial alongside 23 other prominent Nazis at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. During the trial, Streicher was asked: “Witness, what aims did you pursue with your speeches and your articles in Der Stürmer?” Streicher replied: I did not intend to agitate or inflame but to enlighten. Antisemitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries…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. 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.
Julius Streicher was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death on 1st October 1946. Streicher was a propagandist who devoted his life to spreading slander and falsehood, but on this occasion—he was telling the truth.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/luthers-jewish-problem/
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Jero Jones
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