Martin Luther

1. When Martin was about incorrectly adding the word "alone" to Romans 3:8, he is reported to have said, "You tell me what a great fuss the Papists are making because the word ‘alone’ is not in the text of Paul. If your Papist makes such an unnecessary row about the word ‘alone,’ say right out to him: ‘Dr. Martin Luther will have it so,’ and say: ‘Papists and asses are one and the same thing.’ I will have it so, and I order it to be so, and my will is reason enough. I know very well that the word ‘alone’ is not in the Latin or the Greek text, it was not necessary for the Papists to teach me that." (Stoddard J. Rebuilding a Lost Faith. 1922, pp. 101-102; see also Luther M. Amic. Discussion, 1, 127). (11/3/12)
2. Antisemitism (11/26/12)
1. "Jews are young devils damned to hell." -Martin Luther ('Luther's Works,' Pelikan, Vol. XX, pp. 2230.) (1/24/13)
2. "Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them." -Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies (11/26/12)
3. "I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb." -Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies (11/26/12)
4. "Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them,"  -Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies (11/26/12)
5. "Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?" -Martin Luther (11/3/12)
3. Role in Holocaust  (11/26/12)
1. "It is difficult to understand the behavior of most German Protestants in the first Nazi years unless one is aware of two things: their history and the influence of Martin Luther. The great founder of Protestantism was both a passionate anti-Semite and a ferocious believer in absolute obedience to political authority. He wanted Germany rid of the Jews. Luther's advice was literally followed four centuries later by Hitler, Goering and Himmler." -William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (11/3/12)
4. "Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world." -Martin Luther (1/24/13)
5. "I confess that I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict the Scripture. If a man wishes to marry more than one wife he should be asked whether he is satisfied in his conscience that he may do so in accordance with the word of God. In such a case the civil authority has nothing to do in the matter." -Martin Luther (De Wette II, 459, ibid., pp. 329-330.) (1/24/13)
6. Anticatholic
1. “When I die I want to be a ghost and pester the bishops, priests, and godless monks so that they have more trouble with a dead Luther than they could have had before with a thousand living ones.” – Martin Luther,Table Talk , between April 7 and May 1, 1532, No. 1442, p. 151.(2/8/13)
7. Anti pope (2/8/13)
1. "I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist." -Martin Luther, letter to Spalatin, Oct. 10, 1520 (2/8/13)
2. "May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope." -Martin Luther (11/21/12)
3.  "May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope." -Martin Luther
4. “My epitaph shall remain true: ‘While alive I was your plague, when dead I’ll be your death, O pope.’” –  Martin Luther, Table Talk  , February 1557, No. 3543A, P. 227. (2/9/13)
8. On Christ
1. “Christ committed adultery first of all with the women at the well about whom St. John tell’s us. Was not everybody about Him saying: ‘Whatever has He been doing with her?’ Secondly, with Mary Magdalen, and thirdly with the women taken in adultery whom He dismissed so lightly. Thus even, Christ who was so righteous, must have been guilty of fornication before He died.”- Martin Luther (2/3/13)
2. “I have greater confidence in my wife and my pupils than I have in Christ”- Martin Luther (2/9/13)
9. On Moses
1. "Moses must ever be looked upon with suspicion, even as upon a heretic,excommunicated, damned, worse than the Pope and the devil”- Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians, Luther’s Works, vol. 26, p. 365 (2/9/13)
2. "I will not have Moses with his Law, for he is the enemy of the Lord Christ".- Martin Luther (2/9/13)
10. Boastful
1. "Not for a thousand years has God bestowed such great gifts on any bishop as He has on me" -Martin Luther (2/8/13)
2. “St. Augustine or St. Ambrosius cannot be compared with me.” -Martin Luther (2/8/13)
11. "It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic." -Martin Luther (11/21/12) 
12. Martin Luther not only removed books from the Old Testament. He also wanted to remove the Epistle of James, Esther, Hebrews, Jude and Revelation from the Bible because they disproved his ideas. (11/4/12)
13. On Pesants
1. "Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well.... Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel."- Martin Luther (2/9/13)
2. “Peasants are no better than straw. They will not hear the word and they are without sense; therefore they must be compelled to hear the crack of the whip and the whiz of bullets and it is only what they deserve” [Erlangen Vol 24, Pg. 294]  (2/10/13)
14. On Sex
1. “If the husband is unwilling, there is another who is; if the wife is unwilling, then let the maid come.”- Martin Luther (2/9/13)
2. "They are fools who attempt to overcome temptations [to lust] by fasting, prayer and chastisement. For such temptations and immoral attacks are easily overcome when there are plenty of maidens and women" (2/9/13)
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