Saturday 16 May 2009

Christianity and Anti-Semitism

These Jews should be treated with sharp mercy, their synagogues set on fire with sulfure and pitch thrown in , their hosues destroyed, They are to be herded together in stables... Their prayer books, their Talmud, and their Bibles are to be taken from them. Their rabbis are to be forbidden on pain of death to give instructions, to praise God in public, and to pray to him.... Their money and jewelry, gold and silver, are to be taken from them since everything they possess has been stolen through usury.

Martin Luther.
Shocking stuff. Written in 1534 and repudiated by the Lutheran Assembly of America in 1993.

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