On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking payment—called “indulgences”—for the forgiveness of sins. At the time, a Dominican priest named Johann Tetzel, commissioned by the Archbishop of Mainz and Pope Leo X, was in the midst of a major fundraising campaign in Germany to finance the renovation of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Though Prince Frederick III the Wise had banned the sale of indulgences in Wittenberg, many church members traveled to purchase them. When they returned, they showed the pardons they had bought to Luther, claiming they no longer had to repent for their sins.
Luther’s frustration with this practice led him to write the 95 Theses, which were quickly snapped up, translated from Latin into German and distributed widely. A copy made its way to Rome, and efforts began to convince Luther to change his tune. He refused to keep silent, however, and in 1521 Pope Leo X formally excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church. That same year, Luther again refused to recant his writings before the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany, who issued the famous Edict of Worms declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and giving permission for anyone to kill him without consequence. Protected by Prince Frederick, Luther began working on a German translation of the Bible, a task that took 10 years to complete.
The term “Protestant” first appeared in 1529, when Charles V revoked a provision that allowed the ruler of each German state to choose whether they would enforce the Edict of Worms. A number of princes and other supporters of Luther issued a protest, declaring that their allegiance to God trumped their allegiance to the emperor. They became known to their opponents as Protestants; gradually this name came to apply to all who believed the Church should be reformed, even those outside Germany. By the time Luther died, of natural causes, in 1546, his revolutionary beliefs had formed the basis for the Protestant Reformation, which would over the next three centuries revolutionize Western civilization.
Apparently the “indulgences” are still for sale in the Vatican.
Interesting blurb and the Edict of Worms isn’t nearly as slimy as I expected it t0 be.
Thus began the dis-unification of the Christian faith leading to state asserting absolute authority over the church,where before the church was a wholly separate entity. What the Catholic faithful defended with treasure and blood for 1500 years protestant churchians with their 22000 different sects and as many self-inspired interpretations of holy scripture, have destroyed in 500.
Charles V should have burned Martin Luther at the stake when he had the chance.
1500 years of belief
All cast hard in cement.
Now to be thrown aside
For an enlightenment.
See Luther is to blame
For the Flash is real mad,
Dammit he ain’t content.
Now Cutting and Pasting
He now says it instead
Oh my so brave and bold
Look at What this man sez
Pines for that Priest
To be put to a stake
Wishes they taken the time
When they had a chance
Set match to start the flame
Fuck the Reformation
Why not everyone submit
Isn’t it better for all
To be ignorant instead..
Flash in Younger Daze (from the archives)
You’re not tall enough to ride this ride Robbie. Go play with your blow-up dolls.
So you think you are
but you ain’t all it
your tropes are tired
They’re about as useful
in this barnyard
as a Rooster
with no dick
You scratch the ground.
With your cut and paste
And to the amazement of all
You don’t say shit..
Excerpt from the Lloph smackdown (from the archives)
note Flash is da pussy
Memes, which unlike you , I have made in the hundreds in order to communicate with people who don’t read, meaning people like you. Dull on dullard.
did you cut and paste those too…
“Thus began the dis-unification of the Christian faith ” ——– flash
Why blame Catholics or Protestants?
Why not blame …. God?? What kind of God is this who can’t even (apparently) make his message clear to all? Instead, he just sits back and lets Catholics and Protestants hate and kill each other? Great plan!!!
Speaking of which, you wish Luther would have been burned at the stake? Wow ….. you would have made a great mooslim.
Because actions have consequences and like it or not, evil is real and humans are herd animals, thus need strict guidance and discipline and that can only come from an structured system of moral code.
Also, God gave us free will or would you rather be an automaton devoid of any self- control whatsoever ?
And I never said I wished for Martin Luther to be burned only that it would have been better for the West if he had. I hope this helps you understand what you’ve think you read.
Here’s the gist of it Stuck . Martin Luther was a piss-ant monk , nothing more . His 95 complaints where just that . He had no intentions of leading any reformation, nor revolt. Matter of fact, he never led anything.
The Pheasant’s War and Thirty Year Year fomented by his 95 theses were not his doing, but those of the banking and printing press establishment in collusion with indebted nobility. Tens of thousands of people died , ancient churches destroyed and vast amounts of treasure stolen in the name of Martin Luther , who in reality just wanted to get drunk and screw.
The so called Reformation was nothing but a excuse to loot , pillage and burn property of the Catholic church and murder adherents to the faith. But pay no head to the facts of history, just feel good about the the mean old strict church being destroyed. And that what’s really important , right ? Because muh feelz is more important than reading and learning the true history behind cataclysmic events that shaped the modern world
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton
Perusing the history of the Catholic church one cannot fail to grasp the glaring truth that the Catholic church was the very foundation of Western Civilization and once the enemies the Catholic church , not limited to but including printing press owners, bankers ( mostly Jews) and indebted , money hungry nobility succeeded in cracking that foundation, the slow demise of Western Culture was soon to follow.
One good book on the subject of Catholicism being a civilizing force in a brutal cult-driven world intertwined with the history of the Inquisition is here:
Characters Of The Inquisition
William Walsh
https://archive.org/details/CharactersOfTheInquisitionWalshWilliamThomas5967
One thing apparent to any that can comprehend the history of the Catholic Church is the demise of the secular and spiritual authority the Catholic church and the demise of Western culture, tradition, family values and faith cannot be separated. They are one and the same.
On archive.org you can find an audiobook reading of Michael Jones’ “Jewish Revolutionary Spirit” read by Alex Linder, with some good discussion about Luther. Pretty wild ride to get an atheist racialist take on a Catholic take on the Jews’ impact on history.
Luther began to understand the book of Romans. A good start. Something all religionists would do well to emulate. No burnings required… (sick in the head, heart and soul).
Galatians 3:24-25 KJV… “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.”