Saturday, August 31, 2013

5. WHO INTRODUCED RELIGIOUS INSULTS IN PROTESTANTISM?

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The film begins during a thunderstorm in 1505 as Luther is returning to his home. For fear of losing his life in the storm, Luther commits his life to God and becomes a monk.

In the next scene it is 1507 and Luther is a monk in Erfurt. During his time at the monastery, he is constantly troubled by viewing God as a God of hate and vengeance. Martin is encouraged by Johann von Staupitz, an older monk who is his supervisor and mentor. Staupitz tells Luther to look to Christ instead of himself.

Later Luther delivers a letter for Staupitz to Rome where he becomes troubled by the wicked lifestyles of those in the city. He also views the skull believed to be that of John the Baptist and purchases an indulgence. It is during this time that Luther begins to question the veracity of indulgences.

Returning to Germany, Luther is sent to Wittenberg, where he begins to teach his congregation that God is not a God of hate, but a God of love. Luther begins to emphasize the love of God instead of his judgment.

John Tetzel then comes close to Luther's town where he scares the people into buying indulgences. (The proceeds would be used to build St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and to recover the Hohenzollern bribes to the Holy See, advanced by Fugger, for the investiture of Albert of Mainz). In his church, Luther denounces the indulgences, calling them "just a piece of paper." He then posts his 95 theses on the door of the church, calling for an open debate regarding the indulgences. For this act, Luther is called to Augsburg where he is questioned by the church officials.

After his excommunication, Pope Leo X orders Luther to be delivered to Rome, but Frederick the Wise of Saxony protects him. Frederick and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor decide that Luther will be tried at Worms.

After his trial at Worms, Luther is forced into hiding by Frederick the Wise, while his former professor, Andreas Karlstadt, encourages the Great Peasants' Revolt against the oppressive nobles. Luther, shocked by the revolts, encourages the princes to put them down. Meanwhile, Luther translates the Bible into German.

After Luther marries Katharina von Bora, Charles V summons the electors of the Holy Roman Empire to Augsburg so he can force them to outlaw Protestantism and the German Bible. The nobles refuse and Charles is forced to allow the nobles to read their Augsburg Confession.

The film ends with the following words:

What happened at Augsburg pushed open the door of religious freedom. Martin Luther lived for another 16 years, preaching and teaching the Word. He and Katharina von Bora enjoyed a happy marriage and six children. Luther's influence extended into economics, politics, education and music, and his translation of the Bible became a foundation stone of the German language. Today over 540 million people worship in churches inspired by his Reformation.




List of Luther's Insults
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"Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen."
Heidelberg Disputation 
from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
Page
 Insult
51
Your sin smells to high heaven.

Explanations of the Ninety-Five Theses 
from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
Page
 Insult
87
Your words are so foolishly and ignorantly composed that I cannot believe you understand them.
88
You are the most insane heretics and in grafters of heretical perversity.
154
What you say is a blasphemy that has made you worthy of a thousand deaths.
164
Behold, indeed, this little golden work of a golden teacher! It is a work most worthy of golden letters, and lest there be something about it which is not golden, it must be handed down by golden disciples, namely, by those about whom it is said, "The idols of the nations are silver and gold. They have eyes, but they see not."
175
You are worthy only to be mocked by the words of error.
183
It is presumptuous for people who are as ignorant as you are not to take up the work of a herdsman.
184
What bilge water of heresies has ever been spoken so heretically as what you have said?
184
What do you mean when you say this? Are you dreaming in the throes of a fever or are you laboring under a madness?
184
Your astute minds have been completely turned into stinking mushrooms.
185
You are the prostitute of heretics!
204
I am tired of the pestilent voice of your sirens.

Proceedings at Augsburg 
from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
Page 
Insult
289
You are a bungling magpie, croaking loudly.
290
You forgot to purge yourself with hellebore while you were preparing to fabricate this lie.

The Freedom of a Christian 
from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
Page 
Insult
336
You are more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom ever was, and, as far as I can see, are characterized by a completely depraved, hopeless, and notorious godlessness.
336
Your home, once the holiest of all, has become the most licentious den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the kingdom of sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that even Antichrist himself, if he should come, could think of nothing to add to its wickedness.

 Why the Books of Pope Were Burned 
from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
Page
 Insult
386
What devilish unchristian thing would you not undertake?
392
You are an extraordinary creature, being neither God nor man. Perhaps you are the devil himself.
393
Even if the Antichrist appears, what greater evil can he do than what you have done and do daily?

Defense and Explanation of All the Articles 
from Vol. 32 of Luther's Works.
Page
 Insult
30
It may be that you want to build yourself a heaven of your own, like those jugglers build themselves out of linen cloth at the Shrove Tuesday carnival. Is it not disgusting that we have to hear such foolish and childish things from you?
38
In our country, fruit grows on trees and from trees, and meditation upon sin grows from contrition. But in your land, trees may grow on fruits, contrition from sins, people walk on their ears, and everything is upside down.
39
O you wolf in Christendom!
41
You know less than does a log on the ground.
46
I think that all the devils have at once entered into you.
46
You are worse than all the devils. What you have done, no devil has ever done. Your end is near, you son of perdition and Antichrist! Stop now, you are going to far!
47
You are the true, chief, and final Antichrist.
48
How far will you go, O devilish pride?
52
All Christians should be on guard against your anti christian poison.
56
I think you received these ideas in your pipe dreams.
61
You are in all you do the very opposite of Christ as befits a true Antichrist.
63
You are a person of sin and the child of perdition, leading all the world with you to the devil, using your lying and deceitful ways.
64
You are not a pious fraud, but an infernal, diabolical, anti christian fraud.
64
You are the Roman Nimrod and a teacher of sin.
66
It is the old dragon from the abyss of hell who is standing before me!
78
You hold fast to human dreams and the doctrines of devils.
80
If you who are assembled in a council are so frivolous and irresponsible as to waste time and money on unnecessary questions, when it is the business of a council to deal only with the important and necessary matters, we should not only refuse to obey you, but consider you insane or criminals.
81
Even Lucifer was not guilty of so great a sacrilege in heaven, for he only presumed to be God's equal. God help us!
82
You condemned the holy gospel and replaced it with the teaching of the dragon from hell.
83
Your words are un-Christian, anti christian, and spoken by the inspiration of the evil spirit.
83
What happened to the house built on sand in Matthew 7 will also happen to you.
85
Must we believe your nightmares?
85
Look how this great heretic speaks brazenly and sacrilegiously.
87
You run against God with the horns of your pride up in the air and thus plunge into the abyss of hell. Woe unto you, Antichrist!
89
You are the devil's most dangerous tool!
99
It seems I must have liars and villains for opponents. I am not worthy in the sight of God that a godly and honorable person should discuss these matters with me in a Christian way. This is my greatest lament.



Against Latomus 
from Vol. 32 of Luther's Works.
Page
Insult
138
May the Lord Jesus protect me and all devout souls from your contagion and your company!
140
This venom - the mere smell of which kills a man!
140
You are a Baal-zebub - that is, a man of flies.
140
You are full of poisonous refuse and insane foolishness.
142
You are ignorant, stupid, godless blasphemers.
142
You moderate enforcer and eulogizer of moderation. You are one of those bloody and deceitful people who affect modesty in words and appearance, but who meanwhile breathe out threats and blood.
143
We leave you to your own devices, for nothing properly suits you except hypocrisy, flattery, and lies.
145
In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.
145
The reward of such flattery is what your crass stupidity deserves. Therefore, we shall turn from you, a sevenfold stupid and blasphemous wise person.
146
People of your sort are hirelings, dumb dogs unable to bark, who see the wolf coming and flee or, rather, join up with the wolf.
146
You are a wolf and apostle of Satan.
147
You are the ultimate scourges of the world, the Antichrist together with your sophists and bishops.
147
You cowardly slave, you corrupt sycophant, with your sickening advice!
148
You are idiots and swine.
150
Every letter of yours breathes Moabitish pride. So much can a single bull inflate a single bubble that you practically make distinguished asses into gods.
150
You sophistic worms, grasshoppers, locusts, frogs and lice!
152
You completely close your mind and do nothing but shout, "Anathema, anathema, anathema!" so that by your own voice you are judged mad.
153
Let this generation of vipers prepare itself for unquenchable fire!
159
You rush forward as an ass under the pelt of a lion.
160
In appearance and words you simulate modesty, but you are so swollen with haughtiness, arrogance, pride, malice, villainy, rashness, superciliousness, ignorance, and stupidity that there is nothing to surpass you.
176
Blind moles!
205
We despise your whorish impudence.
205
You arsonists, enemies of languages and truth!
219
Before God and men I accuse all of you as arsonists, blasphemers, murderers, and ravagers of Christian piety.
223
My soul, like Ezekiel's, is nauseated at eating your bread covered with human dung. Do you know what this means?
223
You pant after the garlic and melons of Egypt and have already long suffered from perverted tastes.
242
You people are more stupid than a block of wood.

The Bondage of the Will 
from Vol. 33 of Luther's Works.
Page 
Insult
22
You foster in your heart a Lucian, or some other pig from Epicurus' sty.
29
You reek of nothing but Lucian, and you breathe out on me the vast drunken folly of Epicurus.
36
You find things irreverent, inquisitive, and vain just as all ungodly men do, or rather, as the demons and the damned find things hateful and detestable.
76
You seem to be wrangling about goat's wool, like the man who watched the play in an empty theater.
77
You are dumber than Seriphian frogs and fishes.
113
You conduct yourself like one drunk or asleep, belching out between your snores, "Yes, No."
127
How is it, then, that you drivel like people in their second childhood?
144
Just as in a picture or dream you might see the king of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops, that is how you go to war.
224
Proteus is no Proteus compared with you.
236
You do nothing with all your profusion of words but fight a fire with dry straw.
244
Perhaps you want me to die of unrelieved boredom while you keep on talking.
254
Are you ignorant of what it means to be ignorant?
268
You speak and act only as an ungodly person does.

Concerning the Ministry 
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
 Insult
17
I would not smell the foul odor of your name.
25
Are you not making an elephant out of a fly? What wonder workers!
30
You worship a Dragon and a god of your stomachs.
34
You have a priesthood of Satan.
34
As for the signs of your peculiar priesthood, we are willing to let you boast of these mean things, for we know it would be quite easy to shave, anoint, and clothe in a long robe even a pig or a block of wood.

Letter to the Princes of Saxony 
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
 Insult
52
In your hiding place you use the most fearless language as though you were full of three holy spirits. Such unseemly boasting reveals clearly what kind of a spirit you are.

Letter to the Christians at Strassburg 
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
Insult
67
Truly, I never imagined, and at the same time was shocked, to see how deeply you still cling to your errors.
67
You are a coarse devil who hurts me but little.
68
Such loose, lame, empty talk, set forth on the basis of your own reason and idiosyncrasy, would lead me to believe first of all that your opinions amount to nothing.
69
Get out in the name of a thousand devils, and break your neck before you are out of the city.



Against the Heavenly Prophets 
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
 Insult
82
You have a perverted spirit that thinks only of murdering the conscience.
89
You teach the disorderly masses to break into this field in disorder like pigs.
96
Phooey on you, you servant of idols!
110
You are a toad eater and a fawner.
111
Take care, you evil and wrathful spirits. God may ordain that in swallowing you may choke to death.
118
Perhaps you like to hear yourself talk, as the stork its own clattering.
131
You are the cousins of the Antichrist.
141
You are the sin-master and soul-murdered.
146
Just as the devil is disorderly and jumbles things together, so your writings and head are equally disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.
147
Do you not see here the devil, the enemy of God's order?
147
Who ever does not know the devil might be misled by these many splendid words to think that five holy spirits were in possession of you. Whoever differs from you is a papist twice over who crucifies or murders Christ; indeed, those who differ from you are Scribes. Whoever agrees with you, however, is up to their boots in the spirit and is a learned light. O wonderful saints! What do you think of yourselves? Do you fully grasp what kind of a spirit you have?
148
You plunge in like a sow to devour pearls, and like a dog tearing holy things to pieces.
149
In devil's fashion you go out where God would enter and enter where God goes out. It ought surprise no one that I call you a devil.
150
Listen, murdered of souls and sinful spirit!
150
Stupid spirit.
151
What light can there be in heads that hold such tangible darkness?
155
We may confidently suppose and be sure that your spirit will produce evidence and proof when the devil becomes God.
157
The devil rides you.
161
You have fought against us as one would attack a cliff with a broken straw.
164
You have lost head, eyes, brain, and heart, since you know neither shame nor fear, and dare wager all according to your whims.
167
If I were to repay you in slanderous words for the way you have blasphemed so maliciously and terribly, where would I find enough words? For your sins and blasphemy are immeasurable.
185
I beg you put your glasses on your nose, or blow your nose a bit, to make your head lighter and the brain clearer.
185
You do nothing more than latch on to a small word and smear over with your spittle as you please, but meanwhile you do not take into account other texts which overthrow you who smear and spits, so that you are up-ended with all four limbs in the air.
186
You are like the ostrich, the foolish bird which thinks it is wholly concealed when it gets its neck under a branch. Or like small children, who hold their hands in front of their eyes and seeing nobody imagine that no one sees them either. In general, you are so stupid that it makes one feel like vomiting.
189
The silly, feeble devil thinks no one sees it. No, my fellow, we see you well enough. You haven't used enough make-up; you need more and other colors.
193
This is pure knavery with which the devil here deals. Tell me, you who are so pure, why are you here so filthy?
194
You ought to feel shame in your hearts, you great gruff asses' heads.
200
What a fine spirit we have here, who would drive out the devil by a devil. Indeed you would disgrace public truth with public lies.
202
Finally you cannot help yourself but spew out good, fat, strong lies, and like a mad person speak against yourself.
205
Were you against the heathen Priapus, he would probably pass wind in the face of such well-aimed terror.
205
How this spirit makes a food of itself in all its words. You can say nothing but that it boomerangs on your own head and hits you so that you not only are blackened but are made to stagger as a drunkard.
209
See how your spirit here walks on eggs, how you twist and turn, how you talk as if you had mush in your mouth and mumble like a half-dead, despairing person.
211
You like as an arch rascal and disgraceful scoundrel.
216
You act and speak as a bride of the devil, expressing what the devil inspires. All blasphemous words of this kind are nothing but childish, mad, sacrilegious ideas, and lies which are not worthy of answer.
216
You poor devil.
217
You have surrendered yourself and dared to become an avowed enemy of God, wanting to race rather than trot to hell.
218
Wither now, dear factious spirits? I will let you write and shriek for a thousand years and need not oppose you with more than one word. O how one word smashes you prophets and spirits into one lump in the gutter.
222
You boast of possessing the Spirit, more than the apostles, and yet for years now have secretly prowled about and flung around your dung. Were you a true spirit you would at once have come forward and given proof of you call by sings and words. But you are a treacherous, secret devil who sneaks around in corners until you have done your damage and spread your poison.

Concerning Rebaptism 
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
 Insult
252
There you are, like butter in sunshine.
259
As far as I have been able to see and hear, you have no argument but high-sounding words of sacrilege. Everyone ought properly to shun and avoid you as messengers of none other than the devil.

Instructions for the Visitors of Parish Pastors 
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
 Insult
271
You are spiritual scarecrows and monk calves.
271
What good purpose can you lazy, sluggish bullies accomplish?
272
You are poisonous, worthless gossips.
273
You are undisciplined heads who out of utter perversity are able to do nothing in common or in agreement, but are different and self-centered in heart and life.
310
You are like a herd of swine being invited to the table of a prince. You understand not such an honor, but only ravage what is set before you, even soiling the prince.


The Keys 
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
Insult
326
If you had looked with slumbering and only half-open eyes, the clear bright light would have struck you so that you would have had to open your eyes wide and awaken. But now since you did not do that, but only listened as if in a dream, you speak like a sleepy toper when one asks him whether he would not like to go home and he replies, "Bring me another," and really believes that one brings him another drink.
326
What else can one say here, except that these ideas originate in your own wanton concoctions, or in a drunken dream?
344
You gamble with God's Word like a rogue.
344
Heaven and earth are in danger of caving in because of your heresies.
345
You are indeed cheated and deceived by falsehood, and that is what all like you deserve.
351
You are not human beings, but empty shells and shadows.
352
You dear asses.
360
You are jugglers of imaginary sins.
362
Even if your writings were from an angel from heaven I would take this horrible document, and, after having used it as toilet paper, wipe its nose.
363
You are like swine who indiscriminately devour everything.

Infiltrating and Clandestine Preachers 
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
Insult
383
You are emissaries of the devil.
384
You are the true print and touch of the devil.
388
What pig sties could compare in goings-on with you?
393
Whoever tolerates and listens to you should know that they are listening to the devil himself, incarnate and abominable, as he speaks out of the mouth of a possessed person.

On the Councils and the Church 
from Vol. 41 of Luther's Works.
Page
Insult
54
You are admirable, fine, pious sows and asses.
56
You are like mouse-dropping in the pepper.
72
Listen, you ass, you are a particularly crass ass, indeed, you are a filthy sow!
124
You are the white devil and a glittering Satan.
132
You are pious and honest people, who cannot do anything but calumniate and lie.
150
Snot-nose!
158
You should rightly be called lawyers for asses.
159
Are you not mad, and crazy, and crass Nestorians, not knowing when you say yes and when you say no, stating one thing in the premise and another in the conclusion? Away with you stupid asses and fools!
160
You are a brothel-keeper and the devil's daughter in hell.

Against Hanswurst 
from Vol. 41 of Luther's Works.
Page
Insult
185
You have set out to rub your scabby, scurvy head against honor.
185
You curse, blaspheme, skriek, struggle, bellow, and spit, so that, if people really heard you utter words, they would gather with chains and bars, just as if you were possessed by a legion of devils and had to be seized and bound.
185
It makes me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates you hellish and worldly people, so that in your spite you will burst and tear yourselves to pieces - while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at you devils and your crew and you blubber and struggler in your great fury.
185
You blubber and writhe along with all the devils in hell.
186
I had not supposed or expected your arrogant spirit to seek such a ridiculous and childish reason for lying; you should have better reasons.
187
Since you are such vulgar blockheads that you think such lewd and stupid gossip will harm me or bring you honor, you are the real Hanswursts - blockheads, boors, and dunderheads.
187
Think what you will, so make in your pants, hang it round your neck, then make a jelly of it and eat it like the vulgar sows and asses you are!
188
I would sit still and blithely watch how you, the devil, and your sausages and your tripes vainly fret and torment yourselves, and blubber and writhe, achieving nothing except to make us laugh and make you own case worse. Indeed, I would like to see you say aloud what you write, for if you did, people would gather with chains and bars and out of sympathy would seize and bind you as demoniacs. And if people did not do this, then, perhaps at God's prompting, oxen and swine would trample you to death with their horns and hoofs.
190
You are the devil's donkey.
202
This new thing you have devised is the vilest cesspool that the devil has on earth.
202
May the devil stay with you in this blasphemous, murderous, sinful, pernicious thing.
205
You sharp-eyed bats.
211
You live like Epicureans and sows. So the fat is in the fire!
211
You no longer have, as you did several centuries ago, a cunning devil spurring you on, but a palpable blockhead, a crude devil, who in his malice can no longer disguise himself.
212
You vulgar boor, blockhead, and lout, you ass to cap all asses, screaming your heehaws.
219
For you are an excellent person, as skilful, clever, and versed in Holy Scripture as a cow in a walnut tree or a sow on a harp.
221
A seven-year-old child, indeed, a silly fool, can figure it out on his fingers - although you, stupid ass, cannot understand anything.
225
You, devil and Hanswurst, are in this matter a particularly silly wurstto lie so shamefully.
231
You have the master-devil all right.
235
Doctor Sow.
238
God has punished you by making you incapable of understanding truth, virtue, or honor, thus handing you over to the devil to tell nothing but lies, indeed, to do all that is evil, and to upset all that is good.
239
For you know that everybody realized how you treat your worthy spouse - not only like an utterly mad brute and drunkard, but also like a senseless raving tyrant, who daily and hourly gorges and fills himself up, not with wine, but with the devil, like Judas at the Last Supper. Out of your whole body, in all you do and are, you simply spew out the devil, with blaspheming, cursing, lying, committing adultery, raving, flaying, murdering, setting fires, etc., so that one cannot find your like in history.
242
You poisonous loudmouth.
242
You stink like devilish filth flung into Germany.
244
I think that if you were alone in the field, an angry cat would be enough to scare you away.
244
Is not what I said before true, that you have eaten and drunk yourself full of devils, and so spew vainglorious devils out of your hellish gorge?
245
You wear a pair of cobweb trousers, like a man who, being naked, put on a new to hide his shame.
249
You arch-assassin and bloodhound, the like of which has never been seen under the sun.
249
There you are in the chains of divine judgment, bound in hell like all the devils.
250
You pusillanimous scoundrel.
250
You should not write a book before you have heard an old sow fart; and then you should open your jaws with awe, saying, "Thank you, lovely nightingale, that is just the text for me!"
255
I think that you would not be bold enough to blow at a farmer's fence if you knew that there was a flail behind the door; you would lift your heels in quite a manly way, as though it were snowing flails behind you.


Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil
from Vol. 41 of Luther's Works.
Page
Insult
263
You abominable abomination.
264
Your Hellishness.
264
You are like a magician who conjures gulden into the mouths of silly people, but when they open their mouths they have horse dirt in them.
264
The very devil himself would thank you for such an event, and no one but the miserable devil and his devilish scum would go there.
270
You are the scum of all the scoundrels.
272
You are an abominable arch-heretic.
277
You are desperate, thorough arch-rascals, murderers, traitors, liars, the very scum of all the most evil people on earth. You are full of all the worst devils in hell - full, full, and so full that you can do nothing but vomit, throw, and blow out devils!
279
You are blasphemous, abominable rascals and damned scum of Satan.
280
If you are furious, you can do something in your pants and hang it around your necks - that would be a musk apple and pacem for such gentle saints.
280
Gently, dear Pauli, dear donkey, don't dance around! Oh, dearest little ass, don't dance around - dearest, dearest little donkey, don't do it. For the ice is very solidly frozen this year because there was no wind - you might fall and break a leg. If a fart should escape you while you were falling, the whole world would laugh at you and say, "Ugh, the devil! How the ass has befouled himself!" And that would be a great crime. Oh, that would be dangerous! So consider your own great danger beforehand, Hellish One.
281
You say, "What comes out of our mouth must be kept!" I hear it - which mouth do you mean? The one from which the farts come? (You can keep that yourself!)
281
You are a crude ass, and an ass you will remain!
285
Everyone can see that such a sentence must have been blown into you by all the existing devils with one breath.
288
You are the founder and master of all sins.
288
Even if we were stones and wooden blocks, we could see by your works throughout all the world that you are lost, desperate children of the devil and also mad, crude asses in Scripture. Someone probably would like to curse you so that you might be struck down by lightning and thunder, burned by hellish fire, have the plague, syphilis, epilepsy, the plague of St. Anthony, leprosy, carbuncles, and all the plagues - but these are all caresses, and God has long ago punished you with greater plagues, just like God's despisers and blasphemers should be punished.
290
The hellish Satan drives you.
296
You roar as one possessed and full of devils.
298
Yes, what happened to you is what must happen when one paints the devil above the door and asks him to be godfather.
300
Dear God, what an utterly shameless, blasphemous lying-mouth you are!
300
You think like this, "As I am a crude ass, and do not read the books, so there is no one in the world who reads them; rather, when I let my braying heehaw, heehaw resound, or even let out a donkey's fart, then everyone will have to consider it pure truth."
309
You are such outrageous, shameless blockheads.
310
You are a little pious prancer.
329
You hellish scum.
330
You loathsome, accursed, atrocious monster.
332
I must stop: I can no longer rummage in your blasphemous, hellish devil's filth and stench.
334
But what do you say? "Come here, Satan! And if you had more worlds than this, I would accept them all , and not only worship you, but also lick your behind."
334
All you say is sealed with the devil's own dirt.
335
Why would anyone tolerate such things from someone like you, a rotten paunch, crude ass and fart-ass?
341
You are the worst rascal of all the rascals on earth!
344
I can with good conscience consider you a fart-ass and an enemy of God.
344
I was frightened and thought I was dreaming, it was such a thunderclap, such a great horrid fart did you let go here! You certainly pressed with great might to let out such a thunderous fart - it is a wonder that it did not tear your hole and belly apart!
349
May God punish you, I say, you shameless, barefaced liar, devil's mouthpiece, who dares to spit out, before God, before all the angels, before the dear sun, before all the world, your devil's filth.
350
You ass, abecedarian, and bacchanal.
357
You are the head of all the worst scoundrels on earth, a vicar of the devil, an enemy of God, an adversary of Christ, a destroyer of Christ's churches; a teacher of lies, blasphemies, and idolatries; an arch-thief and robber; a murderer of kings and inciter to all kinds of bloodshed; a brothel-keeper over all brothel-keepers and all vermin, even that which cannot be named; an Antichrist, a person of sin and child of perdition; a true werewolf.
360
You are inimical asses!
360
A natural donkey, which carries sacks to the mill and eats thistles, can judge you - indeed, all creatures can! For a donkey knows it is a donkey and not a cow. A stone knows it is a stone; water is water, and so on through all the creatures. But you mad asses do not know you are asses.
363
I would not dream of judgin or punishing you, except to say that you were born from the behind of the devil, are full of devils, lies, blasphemy, and idolatry; are the instigator of these things, God's enemy, Antichrist, desolater of Christendom, and steward of Sodom.
376
Here now, you ass, with your long donkey ears and accursed liar's mouth!

A Sermon on Keeping Children in School 
from Vol. 46 of Luther's Works.
Page
Insult
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You are such an accursed, ungrateful wretch that you will not give a child into training for the maintenance of the gifts of God. You have everything, all of it free of charge; yet you show not a particle of gratitude. Instead you let God's kingdom and the salvation of people's souls go to ruin; you even help to destroy them. Ought not God to be angry over this? Ought not famine to come? Ought not pestilence, flu, and syphilis find us out? Ought not blind, fierce, and savage tyrants come to power? Ought not war and contention arise? Ought not evil regimes appear in our lands? Ought not our enemies plunder us? Indeed, it would not be surprising if God were to open the doors and windows of hell and pelt and shower us with nothing but devils, or let brimstone and hell-fire rain down from heaven and inundate us one and all in the abyss of hell, like Sodom and Gomorrah.

In the span of time since Martin Luther, hosts of insults were hurled at Catholics from the 16th century up to now. One of the most publicized insult was this:
TED TURNER INSULTS CATHOLICS; APOLOGY FOLLOWS PROTEST
Catalyst April Issue 2001, Front Page

On March 6, Brit Hume of Fox News Network reported that CNN founder Ted Turner stunned CNN employees in Washington when he made an anti-Catholic remark on Ash Wednesday. Seeing ashes on the foreheads of some workers, Turner said, “What are you? A bunch of Jesus freaks? You ought to be working for Fox.”

The Catholic League immediately contacted the Corporate Affairs department of CNN in Atlanta seeking more information. Their first response was to refuse to confirm, or deny, the validity of the story. Declaring this position unpersuasive, William Donohue issued a statement to the press that recounted Turner’s previous remarks regarding Christians in general, and Catholics in particular.

Donohue pronounced Turner a recidivist. “Like all repeat offenders, he said, “Turner evinces an animus against a particular portion of the population. For him, it is Christians whom he despises.” Indeed, in 1999, Turner sent an apology to the Catholic League after we blasted him for insulting the pope.

The Catholic League president reminded the media that Turner was on record for a) branding Christianity a religion “for losers” b) labeling pro-life Christians as “Bozos” c) insulting the pope with one of his cheap jokes at a pro-abortion meeting and d) blasting Christianity for being “very intolerant.” Donohue then said, “Now he’s back, this time slamming those who wear ashes on Ash Wednesday.”

Both the print and electronic media picked up on the Catholic League’s response (it made the front page of the New York Post) and within 48 hours, Turner issued the following statement: “I apologize to all Christians for my comment about Catholics wearing ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday. I do not believe in any form of prejudice or discrimination, especially religious intolerance.”

In reply, Donohue released told the media that we are “torn by what has happened.” He explained “On the one hand, our religion teaches us the virtue of forgiveness and the necessity of penance. On the other hand, we don’t like being played for a fool. So let’s put it this way: we’ll bite our lip and drop the issue, skeptical though we are.” Donohue also requested a meeting with Turner to “find out what’s bugging him.” We are awaiting Turner’s decision.

We hope this is the last time we have to press Turner into an apology.

JON STEWART INSULTS CATHOLICS AGAIN

May 3, 2012 by  
Filed under Latest News Releases
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on last night’s edition of “The Daily Show”:
Jon Stewart opened with a replay of Lawrence O’Donnell’s recent bigoted tirade against Mormons that aired on MSNBC. Here is what Stewart said next:
  • “Mormons aren’t the only religion whose origin story can be explained as a convenient alibi. You can easily say that Christianity was created by a knocked up teenage girl who told her parents an angel had come down and….”
Stewart was then interrupted with laughter, but not before they showed a huge picture of a pregnant Virgin Mary on the screen. He then made a light joke about Buddha. As usual, he had nothing insulting to say about Judaism or Islam.
We will be sure to inform everyone about Stewart’s latest bigoted outburst. And I don’t mean just by issuing news releases and doing interviews. Stay tuned.
How many more insults thrown out there everyday against the Catholic Church?

Matthew 25:40 And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.

How many times have you insulted others?
How many times have you been rude to people of other denominations?
How many times have you laugh at and call others insulting names?

Do you honestly believe you are doing God's will? 
Don't you think you are not hurting our Lord?





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