Today marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 Theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, the act which eventually led to the Protestant Reformation. So to all my Protestant friends, happy Reformation Day!
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Happy Reformation Day!
- Thread starter Shiranui117
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All bow for God walks amongst us given to us by the mighty oracle:
**** printing press worship it's stupid.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Ever read any biographies on Luther? An interesting and rather complex man.
BTW, I grew up in a fundamentalist Lutheran church. Yes, they did and still do exist as not all Lutheran churches are "liberal".
Anyhow, Happy Reformation Day to all that it applies to here at RF.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Ya, that's one of his "complexities". The Nuremberg Laws that Hitler invoked were taken almost word for word at times from Luther's announcement in Nuremberg that was so highly anti-Semitic given centuries before. It's shocking going through those speeches and seeing how they compare.
It's not a 'complexity'; let's not couch it in nicer language to smooth over the issue. He was a rabid antisemite who massacred Jews. That's not a 'complexity', that's an inexcusable barbarian psycopath.
Ingledsva
HEATHEN ALASKAN
At least he was a higher quality pile of doggie doodoo than his predecessors.
And just think...in 3 years it'll be the 500th anniversary of his appearing before
the Diet Of Worms, refusing to recant.
(Those Germans can sure come up with some strange names for things.)
...and they should have known better. The Brethren did. So did the Jews.
I think the Reformation had to happen and was going to happen, Luther or no Luther. There were really several reformations happening. I think that the Brethren (and others) had a superior reformation, and they were persecuted by the Lutherans. Jews were persecuted as well. The Brethren actually made more progressive reforms than Lutherans, and the Lutherans strongly reflected the institution they were protesting. Then along came the Quakers. So you had those in the RC who wanted to change it from within, then the hardline reformers like Calvin, Zwingli and Luther, plus the Brethren, plus others such as Quakers. All of these reformations were doomed to happen because of the tremendous disappointment that had built up towards the clergy and the way things were.