On Feb 20, 2007, at 10:43 AM, authfriend wrote:
I couldn't stomach reading more than a few paragraphs of the anti-Semitic rant of Luther that cardemeister linked to, but in those paragaphs, at least, he wasn't complaining about the Jews having killed Jesus, he was condemning them for refusing (appropriately, in my view) to recognize Jesus as the prophesied Messiah.
Supposedly when Luther broke with the Church, he thought the Jews would flock tof his new religion, figuring that the main reason they refused to join the Church was its heavy-handedness. When it turned out they didn't like him any better, he turned against them with a vengeance.
A bit of an ego problem, one might say. Sal
