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I was raised Lutheran yet did not learn of Luther's horrible antisemitic tract "Jews and Their Lies" until a few years ago. I was stunned and appalled that my Lutheran ministers and teachers had never mentioned it.
Yes, Luther could use some pretty horrible language and not just regarding the Jews. Interestingly, the English King Henry 8th wrote a tract once imitating Luther's scatological language. I guess what I would say is don't apply a 21st Century sensibility to someone who lived in the 16th Century. I certainly do not believe it is fair to think that the rise of the Third Reich can be attributed to Martin Luther's treatment of the Jews. His position was based largely in part to their rejection of Jesus as the Messiah which is certainly not the source of the Godless antisemitism of the Nazis.
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You're wrong about that. Historians agree that the foundation of Nazism was the centuries of Christian anti-semitism in Europe issuing from the belief that Jews were both the deniers and the murderers of God. Hitler frequently invoked God and Christ in his oratory. Germanic peoples were receptive to Nazism precisely because the argument against Jews was not new to them. They had been prepared for hundreds of years by Catholicism and then by Protestantism, Lutheranism in particular. This isn't a minority opinion; it's consensus, easily verified online.
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