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I know a lot of people today (myself included) are disheartened by the degeneration of political discourse into name calling and slander, but take heart!!! People have more or less always been the same.
In light of this, here are some of my favorite Martin Luther insults:
- You live like simple cattle or irrational pigs...
- You are the prostitute of heretics!
- Even if the Antichrist appears, what greater evil can he do than what you have done and do daily?
- You know less than a log on the ground.
- You are idiots and swine.
Granted, Martin Luther accompanied these biting remarks with well reasoned arguments, but it would seem that all humans have an inclination to attack people rather than ideas. It is unlikely that our society is any more debase than its predecessors in this regard.
AwesomeName
Well reasoned arguments? So you're saying the current administration set back the level of public discourse by more than 500 years?
kcarner
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malfunctionm1ke
Luther was also a flaming anti-semite. people tend to ignore that.
kcarner
In some of his later writing for sure! But some of his earlier works advocate for people being nice to the Jews. I’m not knowledgeable 1/2
kcarner
Enough to know why his views changed. 2/2