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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (151270)	12/15/2005 11:58:31 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793553

I can see some resentment afoot. You are overlooking the 17 centuries of total anti-semitism of Christian Europe. They have been killing Jews every since that religion became dominent. Luther was behind Hitler's POV. Martin Luther's Terrible Mistake: The Seven Point Plan Messianic Judaism By Virginia Marin On a sign above the entrance gate to the infamous German Chelmno death camp located in Poland is written: "This is the Gate of God. The righteous shall enter therein" (Psalms 118:20). This was not meant to be a welcome sign to give courage or hope to the Jews who were goaded like cattle into the confines of Chelmno, but rather a mock designed to humiliate them on their first leg's journey into an earthly hell. Between the gate sign and the ovens stood a ghostly spectator. Always the spectator. The specter was Martin Luther. This incorporeal being lent his phantasmic presence to Nazi Germany and was approvingly present at the Holocaust, as documented by numerous scholars. How could this be? Luther had been dead and buried for some 400 years. Professor Robert J. Wistrich, a top scholar on anti-Semitism, writes: "The seed of hatred sown by Luther would reach its horrible climax in the Third Reich when German Protestants showed themselves to be particularly receptive to Nazi anti-Semitism."[1] Further, one Lutheran translator of Luther's works states that "It is impossible to publish Luther's treatise today without noting how similar his proposals were to the actions of the National Socialist regime in Germany in the 1930's and 1940's."[2] What are some of the proposals alluded to above? There are seven proposal points known as Martin Luther's Seven-Point Plan. Can you see the similarity with Hitler's plans for the Jews and Luther's seven plans for the Jews as listed below? * synagogues should be set on fire * Jewish homes should be burned to the ground, the people kept in stables like horses * they should be deprived of prayer books and Scriptures in which is found lies, curses and blasphemy * the rabbis must be forbidden under the threat of death to engage in teaching * Jews should be forbidden passports and not allowed to travel * all their money and valuables of silver and gold should be confiscated and kept by the government * let the young and strong, male and female alike, be given garden implements to work the land for food Hitler idolized Martin Luther. Hitler, in Mein Kampf, calls Luther one of the greatest heroes of Germany and the German people, while Professor Friedrich Heer, the greatest authority for authenticating Hitler, was determined in his belief that Luther had prepared the way for Hitler's attack against the Jews. Heer also describes Hitler's belief that Martin Luther saw the Jews of his time as Germany was seeing the Jews in Hitler's day. What made Martin Luther such an acceptable person to the Nazis? "It was his treatise, On the Jews and Their Lies, in which he gave expression to his unbridled and utterly maniacal, detestation of Jews, and which contained more than a hint of genocidal intentions toward them. Luther's vehement attacks on the Jews were frequently recalled and widely disseminated by the Nazis. The original edition of Luther's loathsome treatise was exhibited in a special glass case at party rallies in Nuremberg."[3] Michael Hakeem, Ph.D., expresses Luther's hatred of the Jews in his article Holocaust as "No paraphrase of brief excerpts can give the full flavor of the seething hatred with which Luther assailed the Jews. It has to be read to be believed. He can hardly find words vile enough to describe who he apparently believes are creatures endowed with very little of human qualities. There is no malevolence, crime, immorality, and depravity he does not attribute to them."[4] Hakeem further informs us that "In page after page of Hitler's rantings against the Jews in Mein Kampf, one soon comes to realize the echoes of Martin Luther are being heard. Julius Streicher, the chief party ideologist of anti-Semitism, argued in his defense at the Nuremberg trials that he had never said anything about the Jews that Martin Luther had not said four hundred years earlier. . .in his seething hatred. . .nor is there any malevolence, crime, immorality, or depravity he does not attribute to the Jews."[5] Luther was never satisfied. He constantly plotted evil against every Jew - man, woman, and child. "During the Reformation, there was a rising of nationhood, and as a German nationalist"[6], Luther implored civil government to begin cruel measures against the Jews. And so came into being Luther's famous Seven-Point Plan. It has not been my pleasure to depict Martin Luther as the historical accounts have so vilified him. In spite of the good Luther accomplished during the Reformation, I have not shown him to be the wonderful Great Reformer that the world believes him to be, but rather a "despicable and non-tolerant hater"[7] of the Jewish people, whether Orthodox or Messianic. On the other hand, Luther was magnificent in bringing to light the error in Roman Catholic teachings of indulgences, purgagory, and other non-biblical beliefs which were the basis for false doctrine and dogma in that church system. The viewpoint given here of Martin Luther is based on historical data, which the busy Christian world does not normally hear. For a different presentation and viewpoint on the subject of On the Jews and Their Lies please enjoy John Hoh's interesting articles "Luther's Unfortunate Mistake" Parts 1-5 and his commentary on the parts. suite101.com