Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on October 31, 1517. It was the first Halloween. Satan has made it his day in celebration of the splintering of the Western Church.
Martin Luther (Augustinian friar) was famously outraged at the sale of indulgences by Johann Tetzel (Dominican friar), who was raising money for the ongoing reconstruction of St. Peter's Basilica. Martin Luther was one of those guys who said, "If I don't understand something, then it must be stupid." He soon began condemning priestly celibacy (he married a 26-year-old Cistercian nun), holy pilgrimages, the veneration of saints and sacred images, and the doctrine of infallibility of popes and general church councils. Luther also jettisoned the old sacramental rites, except Baptism and the Eucharist. His companion heretics immediately stripped away even these last holdouts (in everything but name) and then began to quarrel among themselves.
Of course, once you dump the Sacraments, you don't need priests. Protestantism is priestless Christianity. Once you dump the priests, you no longer need monasteries, so all that land was seized by the rich and turned into their own private hunting grounds (eg. Nottingham Forest). But it was the monks who had taken care of the poor, so without monasteries they had to create workhouses (eg. Oliver Twist). Luther was a tool for elites, giving them the excuse they needed to ignore Papal demands of fair wages and sanitary housing conditions. They seized Church property (creating the welfare state) and then they displaced traditional farmers (crowding them into cities). Luther spawned the "Reverend" Thomas Robert Malthus (FRS) and his deranged solutions for the Chicken Little crises promoted by the emerging mass media. In his later works, notably On the Jews and Their Lies, Luther expressed antagonistic views toward Jews, writing that Jewish synagogues and homes should be destroyed, their money confiscated, and liberty curtailed. This anti-Semitic strain continues in Protestantism, with most heresies beginning with the attempt to divide Christ from His Jewish roots.
In the 1533 Against The Mass and Ordination of Priests, Luther claims he formed his Sola Scriptura anti-clerical philosophy through conversations with the devil. Luther accepts the authority of the devil, and claims to be clever enough to pump him for information and determine the truth from the lies: "He is a liar, that is true. But he can tell lies better than a bad liar can. For he quotes a truth in his own favor, which you cannot deny, and supports his lies with it, so that you cannot defend yourself."
The discussion with the devil covers exactly eleven pages of the Wittenberg edition.
The devil tells Luther that he has no faith: "You know that you did not believe properly in Christ, and that concerning faith you have been as good as a Turk. For the Turk, yes, even I, with all the devils, also believe all that is written about Christ (James II), that is, how He was born, died, ascended into heaven. Yet none of us rejoice or trust in Him as in a Savior. But we fear Him as a severe Judge. Such a faith you also had, and no other, when you were ordained and said Mass; and all the others, both the ordaining Bishop, and those whom he ordained, also believed the same."
The devil explains to Luther why saying Private Mass is idolatry: "Listen, listen, you learned man, do you know that for fifteen years you have almost daily said Mass privately? How will it be if, in such Masses, you have merely been practicing idolatry, and have adored, and held up for the adoration of others, not the Body and Blood of Christ, but merely bread and wine?"
The devil then gives several further reasons against Private Mass. At the end of the second reason Luther exclaims, "What an ordination and consecration is that! Christ knows nothing of such an ordination. That is certain."
Finally, Luther admits that all this is going to make him look like a fool. "Here the Holy Papists will make fun of me, and will say, 'Are you the great Doctor, and don't know how to answer the Devil? Do you not know that he is a liar?'"
That is the pedigree of the Father of Protestantism. He readily admits he obtained his authority to create Sola Scriptura from the Father of Lies. This is the same source that tells us to avoid Mass, Mary, and the Saints.
The Church forbids us to speak to demons for this very reason. Furthermore, She is justifiably wary about twisted bible translations. If you put your faith into the hands of a demon, you will be used and abused. If you put your faith into a book, your faith might fall victim to the translator. Luther fell victim to a demon and then victimized humanity with bad bible translations.
Martin Luther's anti-clericalism tells us to always pray directly to God - no other person will do. We must not ask the Angels for guidance, nor the saints, nor the Blessed Mother in Heaven. However, it is always more humble to ask for help from a subordinate than the main man. We might, for example, thank our Guardian Angel for his help. We might ask St Michael to defend us in battle. We might ask for some special guidance from a saint or our Blessed Dead. We pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. We ask the Mother of God to intercede for us when we say the Hail Mary.
The Old Testament was included in the bible by Catholics to provide context for Gentile readers. The New Testament is the guide for Christians, but since most Protestants start from the beginning (Genesis) and never get to the New Testament, they think like Jews, not Christians. The original Protestants called themselves "the New Jews", attempting to return to the days before God's Church (who they protest against).
Today's 40,000 Protestant denominations are guilty of Bibliolatry, worshiping a creation of Catholic bishops and theologians as though it were God Himself. Of course, God would never lie to us, but we often misinterpret Him. That's why bible interpretation can be dangerous. Today's 40,000 Protestant denominations all disagree among themselves about some bible interpretations, thanks to Luther and his unbiblical philosophy of "Sola Scriptura".
The Protestants demanded that Churches be stripped of everything beautiful, they demanded that Christians dress like Old Testament Jews, and they demanded that Christians give up all joyful acts of kindness and celebration. Protestant rhetoric attacked all Christian acts that were graceful and kind, including the much-maligned "Christian works" (as in "work out your salvation with fear and trembling") which, over the years, has been deliberately conflated with Enlightenment "Will To Power" Nietzschean Autosalvation. If you can save yourself using wit and charm (or rabbinical logic, or kabbalic magic) then who needs Christ, His Church or His priesthood?
In order to throw out the priests you must throw out the sacraments. When you throw out the sacraments you lose your supernatural faith. When you lose your supernatural faith, you lose everything our society was founded upon. You lose respect for marriage, respect for life, respect for ecclesiastical authority. What do you get instead? The State takes the place of God. State sponsored marriage legalizes divorce. State sponsored medicine pushes transgender/birth control/abortion. State sponsored religion creates witches. State sponsored education creates mindless drones for the State.
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Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants (German: Wider die Mordischen und Reubischen Rotten der Bawren) is a piece written by Martin Luther in response to the German Peasants' War. Beginning in 1524 and ending in 1525, the Peasants' War was a result of a tumultuous collection of grievances by hundreds of thousands of "poorly armed peasants and farmers". Like the preceding Bundschuh movement and the Hussite Wars, the war consisted of a series of both economic and religious revolts in which peasants and farmers, often supported by Anabaptist clergy, took the lead. In mounting their insurrection, peasants faced insurmountable obstacles. The democratic nature of their movement left them without a command structure and they lacked artillery and cavalry. Most of them had little, if any, military experience. The revolt incorporated some principles and rhetoric from the recent Protestant Reformation, through which the peasants sought influence and freedom. Radical Reformers and Anabaptists, most famously Thomas Müntzer, instigated and supported the revolt. In contrast, Martin Luther and other Magisterial Reformers condemned it and clearly sided with the nobles. "First, I will not oppose a ruler who, even though he does not tolerate the gospel, will smite and punish these peasants without first offering to submit the case to judgment."
Martin Luther is often considered to be the foundation for the Peasants' Revolt; however, he maintained allegiance to the Princes against the serfs. He even venerates those who fight against the farmers, stating that "anyone who is killed fighting on the side of the rulers may be a true martyr in the eyes of God". In May 1525, he wrote Against the Rioting Peasants. In this publication, he severely denounced the peasants on three charges: that they had violated oaths of loyalty, which makes them subject to secular punishment; they had committed crimes contrary to their faith; and that their crimes were committed using Christ's name which was blasphemy. "Therefore, let everyone who can, smite, slay, and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish, than a rebel. It is just as when one must kill a mad dog; if you do not strike him, he will strike you, and a whole land with you."
"I, Martin Luther, have during the rebellion slain all the peasants, for it was I who ordered them to be struck dead. All their blood is upon my head. But I put it all on our Lord God: for he commanded me to speak thus." After a few months, he decided to write a formal explanation, in an open letter to Caspar Muller, entitled An Open Letter on the Harsh Book Against the Peasants. He defends his previous writings, and states that it is the duty of a Christian to "suffer injustice, not to seize the sword and take to violence". He defends the 'harshness' that he used, stating that "a rebel is not worth rational arguments, for he does not accept them. You have to answer people like that with a fist, until the sweat drips off their noses". Luther would be chastised for his views, was seen as a shill to the princes, and was even stoned in Orlamünde.
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