Today, December 10, 1520, Martin Luther had the courage and conviction to publicly burn the papal edict demanding he recant his accusations of heresy to the Catholic Church, or face excommunication.
Take that , Pope.
I mean, really, the Catholic Church was taking money from what were poor people, so they could assure themselves a place in heaven, among other insane, deplorable, despicable things.
Talk about blood money.
The guy was smart. The guy had guts.
Our hats off to you, Martin Luther, for standing up to ignorant thought and a great deal of peer pressure.
This is my favorite thing he did, however, as this is what lead up to today's date:
"On Halloween of 1517, Luther changed the course of human history when he nailed his 95 Theses to the church door at Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic church of heresy upon heresy."
Good on ya', Martin.
Our thanks.
Link: http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/martin-luther.html
To read his 95 Theses, go here: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/ninetyfive.html
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Hats off to Martin Luther? Hmmmm. Okay, give him credit for standing up to the terrible corruption and unconscionable abuse of power of the Catholic church. Give him credit for courage and being instrumental in initiating the gradual decline in influence of the church over the minds of Europeans. But this was also the man who said that the homes of Jews should be destroyed, their synagogues burned, money confiscated, and liberty curtailed. Luther's ideas were revived and used in propaganda by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945. I'm not disagreeing with what you wrote. Luther also was an absolute believer in the divine right of kings and refused to support efforts by the peasantry to obtain more rights and a better standard of living. Like most great men, he was a man of contradictions.
All I was--and am--saying is that standing up to the Catholic Church's wrongs was the right thing to do. It took thinking outside the box to come up with his stands against their oppressive views and it took courage to speak against them.
Since you know me, the last thing you would know me to support was any racism against Jews, etc.
I gave up thinking any one person was particluarly perfect or flawless long ago.
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