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Martin Luther: Definitely Not a Jew - The Protestant Reformation and Anti-Semitism
Tablet Magazine ^ | October 31, 2017 | VerĂ³nica Zaragovia

Posted on 08/11/2018 11:26:52 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: miss marmelstein
Which just goes to confirm some suspicions

You've already admitted you are entirely ignorant about the Jewish religion, and are thus utterly unqualified to even disagree with me about its contents. So, of course, you would also harbor your insane suspicions because you have nothing else to go on other than hurt feelings.

21 posted on 08/11/2018 12:57:53 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
That Martin Luther was not rational when he made these statements.

Taught well by Rome. He recovered the Gospel of Grace and so much more.

22 posted on 08/11/2018 12:58:36 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I have a Talmud sitting right here, Buster. Take your anti-semitism somewhere else.


23 posted on 08/11/2018 1:01:37 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Martin Luther overlooked a lot of New Testament scripture to arrive at his anger toward Jews. Romans 9-11 is so obvious, that we can only conclude his anger was based on a deep prejudice he was born with.

Europe has not been kind to Jews. They are much safer in the USA and Israel.


24 posted on 08/11/2018 1:06:18 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: miss marmelstein
I have a Talmud sitting right here

You have 6 or 7 books with more than 2000 pages altogether sitting right there? OK. Pull open Gittin 57a and tell me what it says.

25 posted on 08/11/2018 1:09:01 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

As a Lutheran, I sorely wish he had not turned anti-Semite. It was wrong, a sin against God and His chosen people. There is no excusing it.

Shakespeare wrote that the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. Praise God, for all of us who name His Son as our Lord, the evil that we do is buried with the cross, and the good is all to His glory. So be it with Martin Luther as with all of us.


26 posted on 08/11/2018 1:18:46 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I probably have what you have - a large book marked Talmud which is the book of Jewish law. It sits next to my Torah as well as my King James, Gideon and Catholic bible and Baltimore Catechism and my mom’s Cardinal Newman essays.

And I never do what freepers order me to do - including pawing through passages that you have memorized to prove whatever the hell it is you’re using to demonize the Jewish religion.


27 posted on 08/11/2018 1:21:52 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein
I probably have what you have

I would never spend several hundred dollars on a dozen or so volumes when I can just go to: https://www.sefaria.org/Gittin.57a?lang=bi

And I never do what freepers order me to do

Considering you were responding to me within a few minutes all throughout this thread, then took more than a 10 minute gap on this one, suggests you looked up Gitten 57a and didn't like its contents.

28 posted on 08/11/2018 1:28:33 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I repeat: I don’t take orders from other freepers. I had one last week demanding I list all my Robert E. Lee bios and histories.

Please share with us quotations from Talmud as you wish.


29 posted on 08/11/2018 1:34:05 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Not many Christians today know the real truth behind the Reformation. It was not a revival of theology but rather a rebellion against the Catholic church. Evangelicals today more closely resemble Anabaptist of this time in the beliefs of their faith. The Anabaptist were hated and martyred by the “accepted faiths” of their time.


30 posted on 08/11/2018 1:34:31 PM PDT by RushingWater
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To: irishjuggler
Mohammed supposedly had similar expectations of being accepted by Jews as a prophet. When that didn't happen he didn't write a book. He murdered and enslaved whole Jewish communities that had existed on the Arabian Peninsula for centuries. Later on his followers went to the simple expedient of reclassifying the actual prophets as a) descendants of Ishmael instead of Isaac, and b) Muslims ... a couple thousand plus years before that word existed.

That Luther was as flawed as anyone, and a reflection of his times, does not negate all his teachings. Nor that the western church had become hugely corrupt and rich and deeply in need of reform and a return to first principles. It was and is, after all, made up and run by sinful humans, a fact that applies as much to Protestants as Roman Catholics. We all strive imperfectly.

31 posted on 08/11/2018 1:42:14 PM PDT by katana (We're all part of a long episode of "The Terrific Mr. Trump")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
And so, the dark side of the Reformation needs some serious examination

Why not just get a few of your friends together and go pull down a Luther statue somewhere instead of reintroducing the Catholic-Protestant hate wars here on FR? Just how far back does your particular tribalist outrage extend?

32 posted on 08/11/2018 3:24:40 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans; miss marmelstein
... you realize that present day Judaism is itself a "mental illness" of a religion.

These comments are prima facie antisemitism. This is the type of language used by Nation of Islam and other extremist sects. It is outside the camp of Christians and that language should be condemned by all Christians.
33 posted on 08/11/2018 3:36:18 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Most American Protestants and Evangelicals are dispensationalists. That is they believe that Jews have a different dispensation than Gentiles.

But it was not always so.

Dispensationalism only got started in the USA in the 19th century.

Prior to that Christian attitudes toward the Jews were formulated first by Augustine about 400 AD. This was at a time when the capital of Christianity had moved from Jerusalem to Rome and the capital of Judaism had moved from Jerusalem to Babylon. (Because of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD and the subsquent exiling of Jews from Israel by the Romans.)

Augustines believed that God had replaced Jews as his chosen people with Christians. While the Jews extirpated the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilee from the Torah so as to emphasize that “G-d oh G-d our G-d is one.”(Why? because at one time Christianity was a Jewish sect.) (Both banished books can still be found in the Ethiopian Torah.)

Luther like all Christians of the 1500’s believed in the Replacement theory.

Like earlier commentators on this thread—the main thing that needs to be remembered from Luther’s famous 95 thesis of 1517 that applies to our day—is his injunction against the Catholic practice of the sale of indulgences.

Basically the Catholic church took the pagan ancestors of the Germans hostage. They placed them in “purgatory”. For a price the German people could get their ancestors out of purgatory and into heaven.

The sale of indulgences was a good business for the catholic church.

Luther said the practice was corrupt, unbiblical, and caused witchcraft.

What needs to be understood today is that the democrats are going into churches and selling indulgences again today.

That’s what white privilege and all its derivations are about. They’re all about taking the ancestors hostage. The ancestors of course can be let out of jail if blacks and whoever else are GIVEN more money power prestige and stuff. But then only for a little while because this is the gift that keeps on giving. This is the DANGELD rule. This gift was first imagined under the Lyndon Johnson administration’s great society program and sold to liberal protestant churches from the 1960’s onward.

Perhaps the liberal church’s purgatory problem is why they have succumbed to what once would have been called witchcraft. As well, the liberal purgatory problem is also likely why their membership is collapsing. It would be a shame to see the same thing happen to evangelicals.

Hitler and his cohort were gay pagan communists. They were very different animals.


34 posted on 08/11/2018 3:53:45 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The deeper question for Diaspora Jews and Israelis goes something like this.

Is the Islamization of Europe and America good for Israel? Is it good for Diaspora Jews?

If the answer is yes—then liberal Jewish attitudes since the 1930’s-1950’s are correct and should be kept in place.

If the answer is no—then everything but everything that Jews think and do and feel everywhere needs to come to a full stop. And a bit of reorienting needs to happen.

Bobby Dylan said it this way. “The times they are a changin.”


35 posted on 08/11/2018 3:59:47 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: fhayek

...from a herring barrel...


36 posted on 08/11/2018 4:03:33 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

..don’t go there...


37 posted on 08/11/2018 4:05:37 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: af_vet_1981

Yes, it is disgusting. Sad in this day and age and on FR of all places.


38 posted on 08/11/2018 5:13:41 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

ML was very much against anyone who did not believe The Gospel. Jews fit into that category.


39 posted on 08/11/2018 5:29:05 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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