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To: Chris land who wrote (33539)	10/5/2002 8:26:02 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

If we take Martin Luther out of historical, social and theological context, his words do seem harsh. It is a great weakness of our era to read the present into the past. Luther was responding to the blasphemous material that he had recently read in the Babylonian Talmud. One of Luther's Hebrew teachers was a rabbi who taught him about the blasphemous rabbinical writings in the Babylonian Talmud. The teaching that said "Jesus was a bastard boiling in human excrement for eternity" and that the virgin Mary was a "whore" who conceived Jesus during illicit sex was a Roman soldier called Pandera was particularly offensive to Luther. His harsh responses were a theological opposition rather than a crude racial antisemiism as the modern Jews try to claim. If we take Luther's words out of context and without the Talmudic and Toledoth Yeshu material before us, his words do indeed seem far too harsh and uneven lacking in Christians charity. Our age is an age that murders tens of millions---Jewish-Communism in Russia, Hitler's Nazism in Germany, racist Jewish-Zionism in Israel today, Pol Pot in Cambodia, America's bombing of civilians at Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki--and then we turn around and speak of the sensitivity of our age and the insensitivity of the Martin Luthers.