The Antisemite, Martin Luther: On the Jews and Their Lies

MARTIN LUTHER QUOTES,

"Jews are a base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth. They are full of the devil's feces... which they wallow in like swine. The synagogue was a defiled bride, yes, an incorrigible whore and an evil slut."

"Set fire to their synagogues or schools and... bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, or blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians."

"But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews' synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret... They must be driven from our country."

"Their synagogues and schools should be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness and afforded no legal protection, and these poisonous envenomed worms should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time."

"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words, 'I baptize thee in the name of Abraham.'"

The church fathers birthed antisemitic hatred in the soul of Martin Luther. Martin Luther hated the descendants of Jesus Christ. Yet, many people worship the initiator and leader of the Protestant Reformation as if he were a god. To the Reformers, this is not something you were taught in the Lutheran catechism class. Martin Luther wrote a 65,000-word, anti-Judaic, and antisemitic treatise, On The Jews and Their Lies. Luther also seems to advocate their murders, writing, "We are at fault in not slaying them."

Hitler adored the writings of Martin Luther, and people would see Hitler's justification for killing off the Jewish people. Hitler turned Germany into crimson with rivers of blood. Hitler murdered approximately six million Jews, God's firstborn, the apple of His eye (Exodus 4:22). The Nazi Propaganda poster from 1933 reads, "Hitler's fight and Luther's teaching are the best defense for the German people." Hitler had pamphlets of Martin Luther handed out throughout the Third Reich. Hitler exploited Luther's writings: The Nazis saw Luther as a "spiritual father" of their movement, utilizing his antisemitic writings like On The Jews And Their Lies as justification for their persecution of Jews.

Hitler, in 1933, marked the 450th anniversary of Luther's birth; the Nazis organized a nationwide "German Luther Day." The event's main speaker praised Luther's "ethno-nationalist mission" and called for the "completion of the German Reformation in the Third Reich," associating Luther's legacy with Nazi goals. Hitler used Luther's birthday for Kristallnacht: Nazi propaganda also highlighted the coincidence of the Kristallnacht pogroms in 1938, with Luther's birthday, November 9-10, likely seeking to link the violence against Jews to Luther's antisemitic writings.

Seeds were planted by Luther into the mind of Hitler, a systematic, antisemitic theological harvest of hatred for the Jewish people. Also, Adolf Hitler attended a Roman Catholic school as a child and was mentally poisoned by the mantra, "The Jews are the killers of Christ!" That was a lie! It is still a lie! Your existence killed Christ! While we were still sinners, God's love for us raised Christ!