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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.
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Insult
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51
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Your sin smells to high heaven.
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Explanations of the Ninety-Five Theses
from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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87
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Your words are so foolishly and ignorantly composed
that I cannot believe you understand them.
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88
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You are the most insane heretics and in grafters of
heretical perversity.
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154
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What you say is a blasphemy that has made you worthy of
a thousand deaths.
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164
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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."
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175
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You are worthy only to be mocked by the words of error.
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183
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It is presumptuous for people who are as ignorant as
you are not to take up the work of a herdsman.
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184
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What bilge water of heresies has ever been spoken so
heretically as what you have said?
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184
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What do you mean when you say this? Are you dreaming in
the throes of a fever or are you laboring under a madness?
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184
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Your astute minds have been completely turned into
stinking mushrooms.
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185
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You are the prostitute of heretics!
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204
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I am tired of the pestilent voice of your sirens.
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Proceedings at Augsburg
from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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289
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You are a bungling magpie, croaking loudly.
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290
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You forgot to purge yourself with hellebore while you
were preparing to fabricate this lie.
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The Freedom of a Christian
from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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336
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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.
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336
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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.
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from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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386
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What devilish unchristian thing would you not
undertake?
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392
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You are an extraordinary creature, being neither God
nor man. Perhaps you are the devil himself.
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393
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Even if the Antichrist appears, what greater evil can
he do than what you have done and do daily?
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Defense and Explanation of All the Articles
from Vol. 32 of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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30
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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?
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38
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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.
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39
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O you wolf in Christendom!
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41
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You know less than does a log on the ground.
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46
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I think that all the devils have at once entered into
you.
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46
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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!
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47
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You are the true, chief, and final Antichrist.
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48
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How far will you go, O devilish pride?
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52
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All Christians should be on guard against your
anti christian poison.
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56
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I think you received these ideas in your pipe dreams.
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61
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You are in all you do the very opposite of Christ as
befits a true Antichrist.
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63
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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.
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64
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You are not a pious fraud, but an infernal, diabolical,
anti christian fraud.
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64
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You are the Roman Nimrod and a teacher of sin.
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66
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It is the old dragon from the abyss of hell who is
standing before me!
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78
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You hold fast to human dreams and the doctrines of
devils.
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80
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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.
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81
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Even Lucifer was not guilty of so great a sacrilege in
heaven, for he only presumed to be God's equal. God help us!
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82
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You condemned the holy gospel and replaced it with the
teaching of the dragon from hell.
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83
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Your words are un-Christian, anti christian, and spoken
by the inspiration of the evil spirit.
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83
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What happened to the house built on sand in Matthew 7
will also happen to you.
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85
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Must we believe your nightmares?
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85
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Look how this great heretic speaks brazenly and
sacrilegiously.
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87
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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!
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89
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You are the devil's most dangerous tool!
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99
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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.
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Against Latomus
from Vol. 32 of Luther's Works.
Page
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Insult
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138
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May the Lord Jesus protect me and all devout souls from
your contagion and your company!
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140
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This venom - the mere smell of which kills a man!
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140
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You are a Baal-zebub - that is, a man of flies.
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140
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You are full of poisonous refuse and insane
foolishness.
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142
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You are ignorant, stupid, godless blasphemers.
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142
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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.
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143
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We leave you to your own devices, for nothing properly
suits you except hypocrisy, flattery, and lies.
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145
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In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.
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145
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The reward of such flattery is what your crass
stupidity deserves. Therefore, we shall turn from you, a sevenfold stupid and
blasphemous wise person.
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146
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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.
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146
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You are a wolf and apostle of Satan.
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147
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You are the ultimate scourges of the world, the
Antichrist together with your sophists and bishops.
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147
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You cowardly slave, you corrupt sycophant, with your
sickening advice!
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148
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You are idiots and swine.
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150
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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.
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150
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You sophistic worms, grasshoppers, locusts, frogs and
lice!
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152
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You completely close your mind and do nothing but
shout, "Anathema, anathema, anathema!" so that by your own voice
you are judged mad.
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153
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Let this generation of vipers prepare itself for
unquenchable fire!
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159
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You rush forward as an ass under the pelt of a lion.
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160
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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.
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176
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Blind moles!
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205
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We despise your whorish impudence.
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205
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You arsonists, enemies of languages and truth!
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219
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Before God and men I accuse all of you as arsonists,
blasphemers, murderers, and ravagers of Christian piety.
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223
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My soul, like Ezekiel's, is nauseated at eating your
bread covered with human dung. Do you know what this means?
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223
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You pant after the garlic and melons of Egypt and have
already long suffered from perverted tastes.
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242
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You people are more stupid than a block of wood.
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The Bondage of the Will
from Vol. 33 of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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22
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You foster in your heart a Lucian, or some other pig
from Epicurus' sty.
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29
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You reek of nothing but Lucian, and you breathe out on
me the vast drunken folly of Epicurus.
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36
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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.
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76
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You seem to be wrangling about goat's wool, like the
man who watched the play in an empty theater.
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77
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You are dumber than Seriphian frogs and fishes.
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113
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You conduct yourself like one drunk or asleep, belching
out between your snores, "Yes, No."
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127
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How is it, then, that you drivel like people in their
second childhood?
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144
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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.
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224
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Proteus is no Proteus compared with you.
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236
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You do nothing with all your profusion of words but
fight a fire with dry straw.
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244
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Perhaps you want me to die of unrelieved boredom while
you keep on talking.
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254
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Are you ignorant of what it means to be ignorant?
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268
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You speak and act only as an ungodly person does.
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Concerning the Ministry
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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17
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I would not smell the foul odor of your name.
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25
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Are you not making an elephant out of a fly? What
wonder workers!
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30
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You worship a Dragon and a god of your stomachs.
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34
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You have a priesthood of Satan.
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34
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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.
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Letter to the Princes of Saxony
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
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Insult
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52
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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.
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Letter to the Christians at Strassburg
from Vol. 40
of Luther's Works.
Page
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Insult
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67
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Truly, I never imagined, and at the same time was
shocked, to see how deeply you still cling to your errors.
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67
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You are a coarse devil who hurts me but little.
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68
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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.
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69
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Get out in the name of a thousand devils, and break
your neck before you are out of the city.
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Against the Heavenly Prophets
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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82
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You have a perverted spirit that thinks only of
murdering the conscience.
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89
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You teach the disorderly masses to break into this
field in disorder like pigs.
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96
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Phooey on you, you servant of idols!
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110
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You are a toad eater and a fawner.
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111
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Take care, you evil and wrathful spirits. God may
ordain that in swallowing you may choke to death.
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118
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Perhaps you like to hear yourself talk, as the stork
its own clattering.
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131
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You are the cousins of the Antichrist.
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141
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You are the sin-master and soul-murdered.
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146
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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.
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147
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Do you not see here the devil, the enemy of God's
order?
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147
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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?
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148
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You plunge in like a sow to devour pearls, and like a dog
tearing holy things to pieces.
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149
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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.
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150
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Listen, murdered of souls and sinful spirit!
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150
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Stupid spirit.
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151
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What light can there be in heads that hold such
tangible darkness?
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155
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We may confidently suppose and be sure that your spirit
will produce evidence and proof when the devil becomes God.
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157
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The devil rides you.
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161
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You have fought against us as one would attack a cliff
with a broken straw.
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164
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You have lost head, eyes, brain, and heart, since you
know neither shame nor fear, and dare wager all according to your whims.
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167
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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.
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185
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I beg you put your glasses on your nose, or blow your
nose a bit, to make your head lighter and the brain clearer.
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185
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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.
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186
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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.
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189
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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.
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193
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This is pure knavery with which the devil here deals.
Tell me, you who are so pure, why are you here so filthy?
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194
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You ought to feel shame in your hearts, you great gruff
asses' heads.
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200
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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.
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202
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Finally you cannot help yourself but spew out good,
fat, strong lies, and like a mad person speak against yourself.
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205
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Were you against the heathen Priapus, he would probably
pass wind in the face of such well-aimed terror.
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205
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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.
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209
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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.
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211
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You like as an arch rascal and disgraceful scoundrel.
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216
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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.
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216
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You poor devil.
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217
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You have surrendered yourself and dared to become an
avowed enemy of God, wanting to race rather than trot to hell.
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218
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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.
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222
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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.
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Concerning Rebaptism
from Vol. 40 of Luther's
Works.
Page
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Insult
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252
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There you are, like butter in sunshine.
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259
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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.
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Instructions for the Visitors of Parish Pastors
from
Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
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Insult
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271
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You are spiritual scarecrows and monk calves.
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271
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What good purpose can you lazy, sluggish bullies
accomplish?
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272
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You are poisonous, worthless gossips.
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273
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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.
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310
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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.
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The Keys
from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
Page
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Insult
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326
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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.
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326
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What else can one say here, except that these ideas
originate in your own wanton concoctions, or in a drunken dream?
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344
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You gamble with God's Word like a rogue.
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344
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Heaven and earth are in danger of caving in because of
your heresies.
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345
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You are indeed cheated and deceived by falsehood, and
that is what all like you deserve.
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351
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You are not human beings, but empty shells and shadows.
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352
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You dear asses.
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360
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You are jugglers of imaginary sins.
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362
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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.
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363
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You are like swine who indiscriminately devour
everything.
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Infiltrating and Clandestine Preachers
from Vol. 40
of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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383
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You are emissaries of the devil.
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384
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You are the true print and touch of the devil.
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388
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What pig sties could compare in goings-on with you?
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393
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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.
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On the Councils and the Church
from Vol. 41 of Luther's
Works.
Page
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Insult
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54
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You are admirable, fine, pious sows and asses.
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56
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You are like mouse-dropping in the pepper.
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72
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Listen, you ass, you are a particularly crass ass,
indeed, you are a filthy sow!
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124
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You are the white devil and a glittering Satan.
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132
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You are pious and honest people, who cannot do anything
but calumniate and lie.
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150
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Snot-nose!
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158
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You should rightly be called lawyers for asses.
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159
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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!
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160
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You are a brothel-keeper and the devil's daughter in
hell.
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Against Hanswurst
from Vol. 41 of Luther's
Works.
Page
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Insult
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185
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You have set out to rub your scabby, scurvy head
against honor.
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185
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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.
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185
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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.
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185
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You blubber and writhe along with all the devils in
hell.
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186
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I had not supposed or expected your arrogant spirit to
seek such a ridiculous and childish reason for lying; you should have better
reasons.
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187
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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.
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187
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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!
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188
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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.
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190
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You are the devil's donkey.
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202
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This new thing you have devised is the vilest cesspool
that the devil has on earth.
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202
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May the devil stay with you in this blasphemous,
murderous, sinful, pernicious thing.
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205
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You sharp-eyed bats.
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211
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You live like Epicureans and sows. So the fat is in the
fire!
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211
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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.
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212
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You vulgar boor, blockhead, and lout, you ass to cap
all asses, screaming your heehaws.
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219
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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.
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221
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A seven-year-old child, indeed, a silly fool, can
figure it out on his fingers - although you, stupid ass, cannot understand
anything.
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225
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You, devil and Hanswurst, are in this matter a
particularly silly wurstto lie so shamefully.
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231
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You have the master-devil all right.
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235
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Doctor Sow.
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238
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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.
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239
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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.
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242
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You poisonous loudmouth.
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242
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You stink like devilish filth flung into Germany.
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244
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I think that if you were alone in the field, an angry
cat would be enough to scare you away.
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244
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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?
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245
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You wear a pair of cobweb trousers, like a man who,
being naked, put on a new to hide his shame.
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249
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You arch-assassin and bloodhound, the like of which has
never been seen under the sun.
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249
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There you are in the chains of divine judgment, bound
in hell like all the devils.
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250
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You pusillanimous scoundrel.
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250
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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!"
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255
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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.
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Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil
from
Vol. 41 of Luther's Works.
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Insult
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263
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You abominable abomination.
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264
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Your Hellishness.
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264
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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.
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264
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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.
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270
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You are the scum of all the scoundrels.
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272
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You are an abominable arch-heretic.
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277
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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!
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279
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You are blasphemous, abominable rascals and damned scum
of Satan.
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280
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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.
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280
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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.
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281
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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!)
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281
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You are a crude ass, and an ass you will remain!
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285
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Everyone can see that such a sentence must have been
blown into you by all the existing devils with one breath.
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288
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You are the founder and master of all sins.
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288
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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.
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290
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The hellish Satan drives you.
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296
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You roar as one possessed and full of devils.
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298
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Yes, what happened to you is what must happen when one
paints the devil above the door and asks him to be godfather.
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300
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Dear God, what an utterly shameless, blasphemous
lying-mouth you are!
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300
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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."
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309
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You are such outrageous, shameless blockheads.
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310
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You are a little pious prancer.
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329
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You hellish scum.
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330
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You loathsome, accursed, atrocious monster.
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332
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I must stop: I can no longer rummage in your
blasphemous, hellish devil's filth and stench.
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334
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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."
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334
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All you say is sealed with the devil's own dirt.
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335
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Why would anyone tolerate such things from someone like
you, a rotten paunch, crude ass and fart-ass?
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341
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You are the worst rascal of all the rascals on earth!
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344
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I can with good conscience consider you a fart-ass and
an enemy of God.
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344
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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!
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349
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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.
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350
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You ass, abecedarian, and bacchanal.
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357
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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.
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360
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You are inimical asses!
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360
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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.
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363
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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.
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376
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Here now, you ass, with your long donkey ears and
accursed liar's mouth!
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A Sermon on Keeping Children in School
from Vol. 46
of Luther's Works.
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254
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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.
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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
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
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?
