--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/20/07 9:31:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > It was a *huge* surprise to me that Luther had such a negative > > attitude towards Jews! > > Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing for Protestants. > > But Martin Luther was taught the Replacement Theology by the > Catholic Church who was responsible for the anti Semitism > of his day. The Catholic church murdered Jews in the Crusades > and on through the Spanish Inquisition where they also > confiscated the wealth of Jews who were alive and even put on > trial dead Jews.
Sure, but Protestants would like to think Luther restored the authenticity to Christianity that the Catholic Church had mangled. That he *perpetuated* the mangling in this case is what's so embarrassing.
