Small wonder a works to earn, and or maintain Salvation guy, doesn't see THIS as hateful writings against Jewish people:
On the Jews and Their Lies[edit]
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On the Jews and Their Lies
In 1543 Luther published
On the Jews and Their Lies in which he says that the
Jews are a "base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth."
[14] They are full of the "devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine."
[15] The synagogue was a "defiled bride, yes, an incorrigible whore and an evil slut ..."
[16] He argues that their synagogues and
schools be set on fire, their
prayer books destroyed,
rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness,
[17] afforded no legal protection,
[18] and these "poisonous envenomed worms" should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time.
[19] He also seems to advocate their murder, writing "[w]e are at fault in not slaying them".
[20] Luther claims that Jewish history was "assailed by much heresy", and that Christ swept away the Jewish heresy and goes on to do so, "as it still does daily before our eyes." He stigmatizes
Jewish Prayer as being "blasphemous" and a lie, and vilifies Jews in general as being spiritually "blind" and "surely possessed by all
devils." Luther has a special spiritual problem with Jewish
circumcision.
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self-published source?]
[22] The full context in which Martin Luther advocated that Jews be slain in
On the Jews and Their Lies is as follows in Luther's own words:
There is no other explanation for this than the one cited earlier from Moses - namely, that God has struck [the Jews] with 'madness and blindness and confusion of mind' [Deuteronomy 28:28]. So we are even at fault in not avenging all this innocent blood of our Lord and of the Christians which they shed for three hundred years after the destruction of Jerusalem, and the blood of the children they have shed since then (which still shines forth from their eyes and their skin). We are at fault in not slaying them.
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