If Martin Luther came from his time to this time?

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He would have no clue in which Church door he should nail his theses.
 
Luther was a catholic monk and priest
 
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alice24 said:
Hubby and me joking around sometimes that if Luther reached heaven, there would be a crowd of annoyed catholic and orthodox saints awaiting him and say “dude, we will now talk about this piece of paper”
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I am cracking up.
 
He’d find an awful lot of really awesome memes that I don’t know he’d consider very awesome.

I love Luther memes. 😆😆 I’ll stop with this one. Sorry.

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“That thou art Luther, and upon this rock I will build 50.000 churches” #ThingsJesusNeverSaid
 
I’d buy a Bible from the 1500’s, ask him to autograph it and then put him back in the time machine. Next, I’d login to eBay.
 
Pathway2 said:
what would you do? what would you say to him. furthermore. how would the church react to him?
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My German is pretty poor and I’m not much for standing in line, so I probably wouldn’t say anything. I do not think he would be terribly concerned about what the churches of Christendom thought of him. I would think his blood pressure would be very high, though, when it came to what he thought of the current state of Christendom and of Germany.

He would be especially appalled to learn that officially ending one’s religious affiliation is a way to lower one’s tax bill in Germany.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Compulsory income tax on Christians drives Germans away from Protestant and Catholic churches

Up to 400,000 Germans officially filed declarations to leave the Protestant and Catholic Church after a decision to extend the 8 or 9 per cent charge to capital gains income
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Someone could just hand him an envelope with one of these on it and tell him to just send it to the Vatican.

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I think it would be good for him to know how his opinions on Jews came to be used.
 
FiveLinden said:
I think it would be good for him to know how his opinions on Jews came to be used.
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I´m scared he wouldn´t have seen more in it than just “being a bit over the top” 😮

What makes me mad at the moment in the luther-crazy germany is that they seriously made a film about him where they named his wife not Katharina von Bora, but “Katharina Luther” - beside all his misogynic writing, he wouldn´t dared to name her like that. He used the last name of his wife to be accpeted in the nobility and as a fancy upgrade.
 
alice24 said:
I´m scared he wouldn´t have seen more in it than just “being a bit over the top” 😮
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Yes that is the attitude I have disputed on here in regard to people like Columbus who are still revered by Catholic organisations despite their obvious unsuitability as inspirational leaders in all their works. It is one thing to recognise people’s good and bad aspects, still another to name your organisations after them. I think the Church is trying to do the good and bad thing - it should be applied in each case.
 
FiveLinden said:
I´m scared he wouldn´t have seen more in it than just “being a bit over the top” 😮

Yes that is the attitude I have disputed on here in regard to people like Columbus who are still revered by Catholic organisations despite their obvious unsuitability as inspirational leaders in all their works. It is one thing to recognise people’s good and bad aspects, still another to name your organisations after them. I think the Church is trying to do the good and bad thing - it should be applied in each case.
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Totally agree. Sometimes, in favor of having leaders and idols, what is of course necessary for people in general, we ignore tooo much.
It´s also sad that so many good people are forgotten who did thought differently - even in such time periods. Not everyone was misogyne and racist just because it was the 15th century.
 
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