the father of the protestant reformation was a rabid jew-hater?

Question

In a recent post, a protestant wrote: "It's sad but true that the father of the protestant reformation [Luther] was a rabid jew-hater. Fortunately, most of those who, today, follow the protestant christian message have purged themselves of this hatred."

Now, I find this ironic. Two of the many favorite weapons Fundies use against Catholics are the Inquisition and the Crusades. So, a protestant can wash his hands of the Jew-hating Luther, the witch trials (which were in our own country!) and Henry VIII's murder and supression of Catholics, but they still tie us to the 1000-year old Crusades.
Only one word comes to mind: HYPOCRITES

What do YOU guys think?

Answer 1

I agree whole heatedly. However the protestant churches over the years have been divided. The Catholic church has remained strong and true, so in many peoples view, Catholics are the target. Divide and conquer.

They've tried for 2,000 years. It has failed and will continue to fail.

Answer 2

Roman Catholics should be very aware that M. Luther was one of your own sort. He did not start the Reformation. He attempted to head it off, and it has been said that he saved the RCC, though I think that is an exaggeration. Opposition to the corrupt medieval 'church' began long before Luther, in the early 14th century, but came to a head with John Wycliffe and the Lollards, who made up about 60% of the English population in the late 14th century. Despite fierce persecution, Lollardy spread, and continued to exist, under the surface; enormous numbers of Bibles were hand written and people were taught to read them in their own language. With the help of wealthy men, Luther tried to contain this popular movement by institutionalising it.

So Luther was really a Catholic in disguise, and a dreadful person, too. But that is nothing unusual in Catholicism's infamous history. One more won't make much difference.
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Answer 3

the two blunders of Luther, this is viewed, incorporate interior them 2 seeds of certainty; salvation is definitely the paintings of God, and not the paintings of guy, and Scripture is definitely the very word of God, which could be accorded the utmost authority; yet Luther is going incorrect whilst he's taking those very actual techniques and elevates them to the element that they exclude the different truths in touch. If salvation is God's paintings, it is likewise actual that area of God's paintings is drawing guy as much as the prestige of sonship, so as that guy now will become privileged to share interior the paintings of God - a co-worker with God, as St. Paul placed it; if Scripture could get carry of the utmost authority, the subsequent maximum authority interior the hierarchy isn't the guy believer, however the "God-breathed" Magisterium of the Church (cf. Jn. 20:21-23). There could be no removing this Divinely appointed "center guy," and substituting the authority of the guy for the authority of the Church. In sum, we can take those 2 foundational pillars of the Reformation, and demonstrate how they incorporate necessary truths of their essence; yet we must additionally tutor how they unnecessarily truncate the actuality, and as a effect grow to be enemies of the very techniques they like to sell. The Protestant truths indexed right here are hampered because of the fact they're left incomplete; sola scriptura desires to be understood as prima scriptura, so as that the actuality with regard to the Church could be admitted into the talk; sola fide desires to be understood as sola gratia, so as that the actuality approximately Divine sonship could be allowed to flourish.

Answer 4

The Crusades were a series of defensive wars against Islamic aggression in the Middle Ages and attempts to recapture the Holy Land from Muslim conquerors in order to allow safe pilgrimage and to protect and maintain the Christian presence there. Jerusalem had been Christian for hundreds of years when Caliph Omar seized it, and following that victory, Muslims warred their way into Egypt, other parts of Africa, Spain, Sicily, and Greece, leaving Christians dead and churches in ruins. They stole lands in the area now known as Turkey, destroying Catholic communities founded by St. Paul himself. They siezed Constantinople -- the "second Rome" -- and threatened the Balkans. They warred their way as far north as Vienna, Austria and Tours, France.


When they [Muslims] had despoiled all the country near to Damascus, they advanced to Jerusalem, took it by storm, and put all the Christians to the sword. The women and girls, having suffered every insult from a brutal disorderly soldiery, were loaded with chains. They destroyed the church of the Holy Sepulchre; and when they found nothing among the living, to glut their rage, they opened the tombs of the Christians, took out the bodies, and burnt them.

Why are Catholics hated for defending Christendom? For the same reasons Christians of all kinds, Protestant or Catholic, are hated in our increasingly secularized world: "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." (John 17:14) Christianity and its virtues have been under attack since the time of Christ, and even more so since the so-called "Enlightenment." After centuries of attacks on the Catholic Church in "Reformation" circles and the later, consequent rise of secular humanism, moral and cultural relativism, and Marxist political correctness, the Crusades came to be seen and taught as an example of "Western Imperialism" or "Colonialism." Because members of the Church were doing the fighting, Christianity itself (and Catholicism in particular) was slandered as a cause of war. Note how the same people who scream about the Crusades tend to be those who scream about "religion" in general as being at the root of wars, ignoring the fact that atheistic communism and pagan Nazism killed hundreds of millions in the 20th century alone.

All this understood, it must be said that the Popes' noble, reasonable purposes for the war, however, became entangled with the purposes of those with secular interests and more interested in dynastic feuds, economic concerns over Mediterranean trade, or destroying the Eastern Roman Empire. Many "bad guys" jumped onto the Crusade bandwagon and evil was done by some of the Crusaders: the sacking of Constantinople (including the destruction of churches) and the murder of Jews along Crusade routes most definitely took place and are deeply lamentable. There is no excuse for such behaviors except human evil, but this evil was not sanctioned in any way by the Church, in no way reflects on Church teachings or her purposes for the Crusades, and resulted in the excommunication of many Crusaders responsible.

Answer 5

Luther is called the father of the protestant reformation moreso because he managed to survive being at odds with Rome, even though they did try to kill him.

Those "reformers" who came before him did not survive, having been burned at the stake as heretics.

Tell me... do those of the true faith persecute others, or are those of the true faith the persecuted?

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Answer 6

I am glad I follow Jesus and the Bible and not Luther, Calvin, Zwingli or all those other so called greats.

Answer 7

Luther probably thought the same about Catholics.. ironic ain't it?

Answer 8

Yeah...the Catholics and Protestants both have the same problems back then. It isn't really fair of them to just blame you.

Answer 9

I think that fundamentalists of any religion are idiots.

Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, Jews, all of them.


Just because the Protestant fundies are hypocrites does not lessen the horrors done by the Catholic Church in the name of their god. It just brings them down to your level too.

Anyone willing to torture and murder in the name of any belief system, (including the atheist lack of a belief system) is one sick person.

Answer 10

I think you're 100% correct on both counts.

Luther was a very sick individual, and protestants are hypocrites.