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I’m not interested in playing whack-a-mole with you. You’ve tried to imply that Luther was anti-semitic, that Lutherans are anti-semitic, and that Lutheran pastors like my husband are “wolves” in the pulpit - all based on texts that may or may not be genuine (you tell me after I spent most of the afternoon reading the entire text at fordham.edu). All of this as a distraction from the issue of the Syrian Free Army slaughtering Christians. This is a stupid game and I’m not going to play. I don’t agree with the theology of those who deny Christ. But I will serve their well-being as best I can because their lives are precious to their Creator. You can go pick a fight with somebody else.

What does this...

"This page can't be displayed"

... mean?

That's the result for the link you posted:
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/JewsAndTheirLies.pdf.

Meanwhile here's an interesting alleged translation that's dated 1948:

http://www.resist.com/Instauration/OtherPubs-20120723/TheJewsAndTheirLies-Luther.pdf

1948 being 11 years before the one you linked that's only available in Google Cache - was allegedly translated by Martin H. Bertram and published by Concordia in 1959.

The one you linked on a subject that's, curiously, NOT even mentioned on the LCMS Website:

So, again "What does this mean?" -- which version is the LIE and why hasn't the LCMS put ANY, let alone "the best possible" construction on the subject?

>>all based on texts that may or may not be genuine

The texts that have evidently existed at least since 1948; texts and a subject that the LCMS has evidently chosen to ignore? Those texts?

>>I’m not interested in playing whack-a-mole with you.

Well then put the Ordained “head” of the household on the keyboard - and let him wear the pants... assuming it hasn’t been neutered.

“All of this as a distraction from the issue of the Syrian Free Army slaughtering Christians.”

Nah, all of this as a question of whether or not some Nazi “Wolves” and their Muslim pals...

http://www.google.com/search?q=Nazism+and+Islam+site%3Awww.freerepublic.com&btnG=Search&hl=en&biw=&bih=&gbv=1

...are cooking up another ERRANT batch of instigated historical, sacrificial, golden bovine excrement.

But we won't find anything on THAT subject in the LCMS' curriculum either, will we.

Well, evidently Y(LCMS)MMV:

"In November 1998, on the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Lutheran Church of Bavaria issued a statement: "It is imperative for the Lutheran Church, which knows itself to be indebted to the work and tradition of Martin Luther, to take seriously also his anti-Jewish utterances, to acknowledge their theological function, and to reflect on their consequences. It has to distance itself from every [expression of] anti-Judaism in Lutheran theology."^[9]"

^{9^ "Christians and Jews: A Declaration of the Lutheran Church of Bavaria", November 24, 1998, also printed in Freiburger Rundbrief, 6:3 (1999), pp.191-197. For other statements from Lutheran bodies, see:

"Q&A: Luther's Anti-Semitism", Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod;
"Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Jewish Community", Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, April 18, 1994;
"Statement by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada to the Jewish Communities in Canada", Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, July 12–16, 1995;
"Time to Turn", The Evangelical [Protestant] Churches in Austria and the Jews. Declaration of the General Synod of the Evangelical Church A.B. and H.B., October 28, 1998.}

Hmm. Bavaria? Where is that? Was it a little closer to the action back circa 1933 than Nebraska circa 2013? Yep.