--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Supposedly when Luther broke with the Church, he thought > the Jews would flock to 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.
I once got to teach meditation (not TM) in a really cool lecture hall at the university in Amsterdam. It was lined with portraits -- painted from life -- of the people who had lectured in that room in the past. We're talking the great minds of European history; it was fun to teach there. Anyway, one of the portraits was of Calvin, and the other of Luther. Judging from the portraits alone, there is simply no question who was the bigger prick. Calvin looks like a man who *desperately* needs to get laid, or to take his first-ever shit, or something. Scary...really, really scary. But the portrait of Luther makes him look like a fairly cheerful monk, benign and harmless. I guess "puttin' on your best face for the camera" started long before there were cameras, eh?
