Was Martin Luther the Osama Bin Laden of the 1500's ?

Answer 1

Wow, let me think.....

Luther: Gutsy genius, albeit a bit unstable, who took the initiative to challenge the religious establishment of his day, revolutionizing Christian thought and singlehandedly causing sweeping reform to occur both without and within the Catholic Church.

Bin Laden: Homicidal maniac (and yeah, apparently a genius too) who kills thousands of people and laughs about it on videos broadcast worldwide.

Gee, I guess the answer would be No.

Answer 2

Pastor Billy says: possible and the person called I love st. Boniface needs to read Deutoronomy and discover the Jews conducted Inquistion as well. Boniface learn about the Inquistions before mouthing off about abuses, the Catholic Inqusition or more to the point the Spanish civil Inqusition did not perscute those who openly practiced their Judaism in fact many of them emmigrated out of the country during the period and therefore could not have been victims of your analysis.

Answer 3

I googled this info.

Martin Luther (1483-1546) has long been famous for founding the Protestant Reformation and the Lutheran church. For his defiance of Catholic supremacy, Luther is often upheld as a defender of free speech and religious tolerance. Few ideas could be further from the truth.

What Luther advocated was the replacement of Catholic religious persecution and oppression with Protestant religious persecution and oppression. He demanded strict obedience to temporal authorities, and he preached that heretics, otherwise known as Christians who held beliefs different from his own, be executed. Luther was also consumed by a hatred for the Jews, as many of the quotes below make clear.

Luther set in motion an economic and political revolution in Renaissance Germany. By breaking with Rome, German states were able to seize the vast wealth of church assets in Germany. The huge profits this produced inspired Henry VIII to adopt similar tactics with similar lucrative results for the English state. The structure of the church in Germany shifted to the control of the German states in place of the Church. This would have major implications in Nazi Germany since it meant that Lutheran pastors got their paychecks from the state.

For the rest of the article please go to this link.
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Religion/Martin%20Luther.htm

What I am really saying is the Catholic Church should not be the only one blamed for persecuting the Jews during the Inquisition. All Christianity should take the blame.

Answer 4

How dare you compare Martin Luther (who helped put the Word of The LORD God) into the hands of the common people, with Osama bin Laden. Martin Luther was NOT A TERRORIST NOR DID HE CALL FOR THE DEATH OF ANYONE!!

Edit:
I love St. Boniface:
OMG -- I never knew any of that information, thanks for sharing.

It looks like I will be rethinking my beliefs.

Answer 5

why? where's his Al Qaida ? A Christian terrorists ?
Maybe a spiritual terrorist ,but only one among many .
Threats of hell fire eternities certainly are a form of terrorism but not exclusive to M.Luther .

Answer 6

No, because he challenged the autocratic rule of the Catholic church with a hand-written doctrine, he didn't advocate death for infidels, kill innocent bystanders or authorize blowing up buildings to make a political statement.

Answer 7

Not at all, it would be a better comparison with Calvin or Zwingli.

Answer 8

If you cannot come up with anything better than this, you really need to consider spending your time elsewhere...

Answer 9

That may glide a little way, but it isn't going to fly.

Answer 10

That's a bizarre comparison.