Once a week the Wall Street Journal has an article about religious bullshit. I used to write comments there but always I was harassed by Christian assholes all day. This is the comment I would write there today but I stopped doing that.

"Luther wanted the Bible translated and read as widely as possible."

He achieved his goal. 500 years later there are millions of know-nothing bible thumpers who read that disgusting ridiculous book.

Wall Street Journal: HOUSES OF WORSHIP How Martin Luther Advanced Freedom. The Reformation brought a radical egalitarianism to Christendom.

I saw two comments there I liked:

"Half a millennium later, his message of freedom has not lost its power." The descendants of European Jews would beg to differ.
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I have read an interesting account of Luther's notorious antisemitism...he thought his Church reforms (nicely outlined in this article) would make Jews willing to convert to Christianity. When this did not happen, his typical hatred of Jews (typical of 16th century Europe that is...remember that England still banned Jews at this time) turned into a vicious obsession.