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The Bloody and Bigoted Short History of Protestantism!
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Next year in 2021, we will see the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther being excommunicated and made an outlaw by the Imperial Assembly of the Diet of Worms, and the true date for the basis of the start of Protestantism.
(1517 was the date Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Church in Wittenberg, Germany. He was still a Catholic Priest and professor of Theology.)
Which brought men such as Luther to the forefront in the early 16th-century Europe populist Reform movement.
Names that became icons and celebrities at the time, today these men are revered, men such as:
Martin Luther O.S.A. (1483-1546).
Jehan Cauvin/John Calvin (1509-64).
Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531).
Martin Bucer (1491-1551).
Heinrich Bullinger (1504-75).
Theodore Beza (1519-1605).
William Farel (1489-1565).
John Knox (1514-72).
Andreas Karlstadt (1486-1541).
All the above to a degree were antisemitic and bigoted when it came to Jews or Judaism. Those that were contemporary hated or disagreed with each other over their beliefs of the Reformation. However, probably the worst antiSemitic of all time was Martin Luther. Who it is claimed before 1531 wanted to convert all German Jews to Christianity. After 1531 having seen failure in his conversion attempts, he adopted a harder line and became an ardent Bigot of Jews and Judaism.
He denounced Jewish people and urged that they should be persecuted. In his polemical book “On Jews and their Lies,” he suggested means by which Christians should deal with Jews. His thoughts are chilling and, in all charity and fairness, are not far removed from those of the 20th century Nazi regime under Hitler.
Luther suggested in his publication setting fire to synagogues and Jewish schools, razing their houses to the ground, taking all their religious books away from them, forbidding rabbis to preach, taking all cash, silver or gold from them and ultimately expelling them from Germany…Modern historians believe that Luther’s anti-Jewish rhetoric contributed in a significant way to the development of antisemitism in Germany and that in the 1930s and 1940s it provided an ideal foundation for the Nazi Party’s attacks on Jews. Diarmaid Mac Culloch has argued that Luther’s 1543 pamphlet ‘On the Jews and their Lies’ was a blueprint for ‘Kristallnacht’ in Germany when Jewish businesses and homes – and Jews themselves – were targeted for attack.
Bishop Martin Sasse of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia, Germany, noted that Kristallnacht had taken place on the anniversary of Luther’s birthday and wrote that “On November 10, 1938, on Luther’s birthday, the synagogues are burning in Germany.”
The late Dr William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote in 1941 that “It is easy to see how Luther prepared the way for Hitler.”
History does not paint a pretty picture of Luther, however, he was not alone clamouring to destroy lives, John Calvin became a powerful and despotic figure in Geneva.
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“Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt. This is not laid down on human authority; it is God who speaks and prescribes a perpetual rule for his Church. It is not in vain that he banishes all those human affections which soften our hearts; that he commands paternal love and all the benevolent feelings between brothers, relations, and friends to cease; in a word, that he almost deprives men of their nature in order that nothing may hinder their holy zeal. Why is so implacable a severity exacted but that we may know that God is defrauded of his honour, unless the piety that is due to him be preferred to all human duties, and that when his glory is to be asserted, humanity must be almost obliterated from our memories? Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.”—John Calvin Defense of Orthodox Faith against the Prodigious Errors of the Spaniard Michael Servetus, published in early 1554
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John Calvin Killed Rival Theologians, by Justifying Bad Bible Interpretation! Calvin craved the power and being in the spotlight within the Republic City of Geneva. John Calvin’s interpretation of the Bible justified the murder of his theological opponents. He did not cut off any heads or light any fires that burned human heretics alive, but John Calvin’s preaching from the Old and New Testaments claimed those capital punishments aligned with God’s interests.
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Calvin admits in a letter to his friend Farel, saying that he will not let Michael Severus leave Geneva alive! Also, this proves that Calvin’s murderous act was premeditated!
“Servetus offers to come hither if it be agreeable to me.
But I am unwilling to pledge my word for his safety, for if he shall come,
I shall never permit him to depart alive, provided my authority be of any avail.”
—Letter to Farel, 13 February 1546—
Both Protestantism and Catholicism are the same, they slaughter so-called heretics, assassinated those that did not agree with their belief, read the same Bible albeit corrupted by both and both call themselves Christian.
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—Mark Twain’s Notebook
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