Hah, it is ignorance. Practiced long and hard before Luther, and was a policy in the 19th century.
formed a religion around anti-Semitism
Lutheranism has a 'crystallized' doctrine of anti-semitism accordingly? Well then a genius theologian such as yourself should have no problem identifying that 'doctrine' from the Book of Concord. Please cite the relevant sections that support your conclusion. Or are you, as you're proving, full of it?
I will not do the drudge work for the willfully ignorant. Read Luther’s proclamations, including that all synagogues should be burned to the ground with the Jews in them for starters.
Even the laziest can do a simple search in Google.
Luther was the scrum of the earth.
Luther wrote the blueprint for the Holocaust in his book. The Nazis agreed with him and implemented his recommendations. They both hated the Jews, albeit for different reasons. DR. MARX: Apart from your weekly journal, and particularly after the Party came into power, were there any other publications in Germany which treated the Jewish question in an anti-Semitic way? STREICHER: Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution. In the book The Jews and Their Lies, Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent's brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them...