--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> 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.

Well, that figures!

He sure was ignorant of the concerns of the Jews.
 
> A bit of an ego problem, one might say.

You bet.


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