Martin Luther 1483-1546

Most Protestant preachers look upon Martin Luther as their most great Christian Reformer. In 1505, Luther received a bachelor's and master's degree from the Catholic University, he suddenly abandoned his studies, entered the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt and became a Catholic Christian monk. Luther, a German, bore the influence of being anti-Jew through his upbringing from his family and fellow Catholic anti-Jewish theologians such as John Chrysostom, Lyra, and Burgensis. Luther was fully immursed in Catholicism, until he became a theologian and Christian religious reformer who became involved with the Protestant Reformation movement which would forever split Catholicism and fragment Christianity. Luther's influence extended well beyond religion, he had influence in politics, economics, education and language. He became a controversial figure when he published his Ninety-Five Theses, opposing the indulgences, which was a practice Catholics were led to believe. Indulgences is the release from the penalties for sin through the payment of money to the Catholic Church. This resulted in his split from the Roman Catholic Church where he established his own Christian interpretation on the Christian Bible. His influence resulted in the formation of the Protestant denomination from which bears Luther's name, Lutheranism. Protestant Christians admire Martin Luther that he became their "Patron Saint". Protestant Christians often quote him, theologians write books about him, and many Ptotestant name their children after him, (Martin Luther King Jr.), for example. Unfortunately, Protestants are not aware of Luther's anti-Jewishness upbringing, or even mention that he had a hatred for Jews at all. This has resulted in a biased outlook towards Martin Luther and Christianity. This unawareness of Luther's sinister side, which he had a great deal in the promotion of Jewish anti-Semitism. Luther not only represents Protestant Christianity, he was also spread his own special brand of Jewish hatred that flourished mostly in Germany. Christian anti-Jewishness was not new in Luthers time, it had started during the formation of Christianity. But Luther had promoted Jewish anti-Semitism at a level never before seen in Europe in Luther's 1543 book, "On the Jews and their lies". In this book, Luther took Jewish hatred to a new level when he proposed to set fire to all the Jewish synagogues and schools, to take away their homes, forbad them to pray or teach, or even to utter their God's name. Luther wanted to "be rid of them" and requested that the government and ministers deal with the "Jewish" problem. He requested pastors and preachers to follow his example of issuing warnings against the Jews. He goes so far as to claim that "We are at fault in not slaying them" for avenging the death of their Je-Zeus Christ. Here is Luthers 1543 book which one can see the extent of Luthers hatred towards the Jews.

On The Jews and Their Lies

What then shall we Christians do with this damned, rejected race of Jews? Since they live among us and we know about their lying and blasphemy and cursing, we can not tolerate them if we do not wish to share in their lies, curses, and blasphemy. In this way we cannot quench the inextinguishable fire of divine rage nor convert the Jews. We must prayerfully and reverentially practice a merciful severity. Perhaps we may save a few from the fire and flames [of hell]. We must not seek vengeance. They are surely being punished a thousand times more than we might wish them. Let me give you my honest advice. First, their synagogues should be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up should be covered or spread over with dirt so that no one may ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it. And this ought to be done for the honor of God and of Christianity in order that God may see that we are Christians, and that we have not wittingly tolerated or approved of such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of His Son and His Christians. Secondly, their homes should likewise be broken down and destroyed. For they perpetrate the same things there that they do in their synagogues. For this reason they ought to be put under one roof or in a stable, like gypsies, in order that they may realize that they are not masters in our land, as they boast, but miserable captives, as they complain of incessantly before God with bitter wailing. Thirdly, they should be deprived of their prayer-books and Talmuds in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught. Fourthly, their rabbis must be forbidden under threat of death to teach any more. Fifthly, passport and traveling privileges should be absolutely forbidden to the Jews. For they have no business in the rural districts since they are not nobles, nor officials, nor merchants, nor the like. Let them stay at home...If you princes and nobles do not close the road legally to such exploiters, then some troop ought to ride against them, for they will learn from this pamphlet what the Jews are and how to handle them and that they ought not to be protected. You ought not, you cannot protect them, unless in the eyes of God you want to share all their abomination... To sum up, dear princes and nobles who have Jews in your domains, if this advice of mine does not suit you, then find a better one so that you and we may all be free of this insufferable devilish burden - the Jews. Let the government deal with them in this respect, as I have suggested. But whether the government acts or not, let everyone at least be guided by his own conscience and form for himself a definition or image of a Jew. When you lay eyes on or think of a Jew you must say to yourself: Alas, that mouth which I there behold has cursed and execrated and maligned every Saturday my dear Lord Jesus Christ, who has redeemed me with his precious blood; in addition, it prayed and pleaded before God that I, my wife and children, and all Christians might be stabbed to death and perish miserably. And he himself would gladly do this if he were able, in order to appropriate our goods... Such a desperate, thoroughly evil, poisonous, and devilish lot are these Jews, who for these fourteen hundred years have been and still are our plague, our pestilence, and our misfortune. I have read and heard many stories about the Jews which agree with this judgment of Christ, namely, how they have poisoned wells, made assassinations, kidnapped children, as related before. I have heard that one Jew sent another Jew, and this by means of a Christian, a pot of blood, together with a barrel of wine, in which when drunk empty, a dead Jew was found. There are many other similar stories. For their kidnapping of children they have often been burned at the stake or banished (as we already heard). I am well aware that they deny all of this. However, it all coincides with the judgment of Christ which declares that they are venomous, bitter, vindictive, tricky serpents, assassins, and children of the devil, who sting and work harm stealthily wherever they cannot do it openly. For this reason, I would like to see them where there are no Christians. The Turks and other heathen do not tolerate what we Christians endure from these venomous serpents and young devils...next to the devil, a Christian has no more bitter and galling foe than a Jew. There is no other to whom we accord as many benefactions and from whom we suffer as much as we do from these base children of the devil, this brood of vipers. Luthers document was translated by Martin H. Bertram, On The Jews and Their Lies, Luther's Works, Volume 47; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971.

All of those people who would become Protestant, whose actions had brought about the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, such as John Hus, 14th century CE, Czech Catholic priest and philosopher, to Martin Luther, and John Calvin, of the 15th century CE, to John Wycliffe and William Tyndale in the 16th-century, had all perpetuated the persecution and killing of the Jewish people, which was started by the early pagan Christians, during the second century CE. This persecution was carried on throughout the Roman Catholic church, during the 2nd century to the 19th century CE, and had spread throughout the Protestant churches during the 15th to the 19th century CE. While these so-called "intelligent" protestant reformers had focused on the widespread corruption within the Roman Catholic Church, they had through it all, blindly and stupidly continued to worship a phony, man-made, Baal God, that is called, Je-Zeus Christ, which was invented through the apostate early Christian writings which was originally translated and put together by the early Roman Catholic church fathers which would eventually become the Christian Bible. This is the reason protestants to this day, preach and continue to perpetuate the teachings of a phony, man-made, pagan Baal God, Je-Zeus Christ, which has led to the fracturing, and will be the cause for the demise of Christendom.

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