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If Martin Luther Quotations Were Motivational Posters.

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That is not yet the end of the internet.
This is. Right where it started.
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Something in me forces me to comment so here it is: OMG!

“Peace, If Possible, Truth At All Costs.”- Martin Luther
A proverb once adopted by Western Civilization.
To be re-adopted, if it wishes to survive.

Martin Luther would have killed on Twitter.

It’s scary to think what would the world be like without Martin Luther? The Word of God itself would be only in the hands of the clergy and the elites, not the common people.
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My teenage brain first heard the Martin Luther story as “nailing the 39 feces”. Did get my waning attention in 1968

“The Word of God itself would be only in the hands of the clergy and the elites, not the common people.”
Nonsense. Since their formal creation, the Christian canonical texts (i.e., the Bible) have always been freely available.
However, before the advent of the printing press and widespread public education, the limitations on that availability boiled down to two key impediments: illiteracy and production.
The former meant that peasants couldn’t read the Bible anyway and the latter meant that not enough copies could be produced.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

Much more to it than that. The high peasant illiteracy rate and lack of printing presses, were the two factors helped enable the Roman Catholic Organization (the original mafia) to feed it’s members a highly corrupted version of Gods Word, and aggressively impede direct access to God’s word.
While there were no doubt many faithful priests within the Roman Catholic Organization the upper echelons of the hierarchy were thoroughly corrupt and had extensive extensive political and military control of western civilization. They were well aware that if a large portion of the common folk were able to read and study directly God’s word, they would quickly lose most of the power and influence to which they were addicted.
That is why the Pope and his underlings viewed Martin Luther’s translation of the New Testament from Latin into German as an act of open war against them.

Sorry for the lousy proofreading.

Getting seriously geezerish.
I was puzzled as how these fit with the sayings of Martin Luther …. King.
Sheesh.

Freely available in Latin.
The Papists fought tooth and nail to stop the word of God from falling into the hands of the laity.

Looks like the current pope is reverting to back to the good old days of enforcing that his underlings follow what he would like scripture to say rather rather than following what it actually says. Any upstart cardinals who dare point out what scripture actually says will be promptly demoted.

But there was a church before the middle ages, and before Catholicism wanted to have a monopoly. The earliest days of the church depended upon the Good Word getting directly into as many hands as possible. It did not start as a church of the rich and powerful, it was only after it had won the hearts of many that human greed and avarice tried to take it over.
Remember the line about “love of money is the root of all evil”? The church had accumulated money, and power.

Nonsense. Since their formal creation, the Christian canonical texts (i.e., the Bible) have always been freely available.
No, it was a crime to even possess the scriptures without paying the, self-appointed, ‘church’.
Excerpt from the 1611 King James Version Translators Letter to the Reader.
Now the Church of Rome would seem at the length to bear a motherly affection towards her children, and to allow them the Scriptures in their mother tongue: but indeed it is a gift, not deserving to be called a gift, an unprofitable gift: [Sophecles] they must first get a licence in writing before they may use them, and to get that, they must approve themselves to their Confessor, that is, to be such as are, if not frozen in the dregs, yet soured with the leaven of their superstition. Howbeit, it seemed too much to Clement the Eighth that there should be any Licence granted to have them in the vulgar tongue, and therefore he overruleth and frustrateth the grant of Pius the Fourth. [See the observation (set forth by Clemen. his authority) upon the 4. rule of Pius the 4. his making in the index, lib. prohib. pag. 15. ver. 5.] So much are they afraid of the light of the Scripture, (Lucifugae Scripturarum, as Tertulian speaketh)that they will not trust the people with it, no not as it is set forth by their own sworn men, no not with the Licence of their own Bishops and Inquisitors. Yea, so unwilling they are to communicate the Scriptures to the people’s understanding in any sort, that they are not ashamed to confess, that we forced them to translate it into English against their wills.
This seemeth to argue a bad cause, or a bad conscience, or both. Sure we are, that it is not he that hath good gold, that is afraid to bring it to the touchstone, but he that hath the counterfeit; [Tertul. de resur. carnis.] neither is it the true man that shunneth the light, but the malefactor, lest his deeds should be reproved [John 3:20]: neither is it the plain dealing Mer-chant that is unwilling to have the weights, or the mete yard brought in place, but he that useth deceit. But we will let them alone for this fault, and return to translation.