<< Although it is true that Martin Luther did not, unlike the lovely Mr Alec Baldwin, did not favour putting to death those who disagreed with him.
Not actually true. >>
Actually true. Baldwin, on the Conan O'Brien Show, at the time, hysterically, maniacly even, proposed, by name, the deaths of all of those Republicans leading the House impeachement of Clinton "and all of their wives and all of their children."
I saw it and you may too with a few key strokes.
I was referencing Mr. Luther, not Mr. Baldwin.
Luther was a man of his time with regard to his language and the fate he proposed for his opponents.
The concepts of freedom of speech and religion hadn't been invented yet.