/lit/ - Literature

>>17966822
Whatever your theological opinion of Luther, he was a brilliant man and needs to be read by all. As well as his translations, which show a remarkable attention to detail in the German language, lost in practically all other translations.

>>17966822
Damn I got my Lutherbibel today too. Nice coincidence.

>>17966900
>translate barbaric as un-German (undeutsch)
>adds "by faith alone" instead of "by faith" in order to further his theology
Yep I'm thinking he's based

>>17966975
Nice, what edition is this? The 2017 one?

>>17967008
Yup

>>17966900
He was a retard who got half of his ideas from nowhere. His argument for nominalism, sola scriptura, sola fide, against free will, were all based off of nothing but his philosophical attitudes towards the nominalists and humanists. Sola Scriptura? Yeah, not for any of his most fundamental beliefs.

>>17966900
Luther was a legit midwit and removed from high culture. Half of his takes are just contrarian rejections of the humanism promoted by the Church.
Calvin also was a heretic but a genuine scholar and a master of language.

>Luther frequently alluded to the fact that he suffered from chronic constipation and spent much of his time in contemplation on the lavatory
>Experts say they have been certain for years that the 16th-century religious leader wrote the groundbreaking theses while on das Klo, as the Germans call it
>Luther's tower experience was him sitting on the toilet

>>17966822
religion is bullshit
Religious people should be violently attacked until they stop being religious.

>>17967759
>he came up with the 95 theses while shitting
>he later posted it on the doors of the Wittenberg church
Literally the first shitposter in history

>>17967802
*Ideology

>>17967759
>On the secular side, Luther`s attitudes to women, sex and the body were strange to say the least. Beset by constant constipation he developed a rather unhealthy obsession with his bowels,recording in minute detail every trip to the toilet and the relief he found in his frequent enemas. Most of writings are riddled with anal references so we can safely assume that this obsession permeated other areas of his life.
Clean up jannie

> As an example, in 1542, Luther is reported to have described his depression as such: “I am ripe shit, so is the world a great wide asshole; eventually we will part.”
love him or hate him, he was certified based

>>17967869
Absolutely based and shitpilled

>To say he was preoccupied would be putting it mildly. In 1531, in discussing an illustrative conversation he had with the Devil (which took place on a toilet), Luther said, “I am cleansing my bowels and worshipping God Almighty; You deserve what descends and God what ascends.”[2]

>So great was his love for pooing that he claimed one of his most significant revelations came while he was on the pot. In attempting to understand Romans 1:17, the realization that salvation came through faith rather than through his effort struck him, and as he later claimed, “Here I felt that I was altogether born again, and had entered Paradise itself through open gates.”[3]

>In his defense, the idea of the Devil loitering in toilets and it being his “playground,” was a common one.[4] So, it makes a weird sort of sense that Luther would, as he put it, “chase him [Satan] away with a fart,” or write to him, “Dear Devil . . . I have shat in my pants and breeches; hang them on your neck and wipe your mouth with them.”

> Saving some of his best for last, Luther described the practice of indulgences as “an utter shitting,” and went on to claim that the “dearest little ass-pope” not only worshiped Satan, but “also lick[ed his] behind.”[8] (Licking someone’s butt at this time being somewhat equivalent to the modern expression “kiss-ass.”) He also said the Pope farted so loudly and powerfully, that “it is a wonder that it did not tear his hole and belly apart.”

why would anyone even want to believe in salvation by faith alone? it's like admitting you're a lazy asshole

Christ, what a typical fucking scat obsessed Kraut.
Seriously. G*rmans. What the fuck is their problem?
I don't actually them but Jesus, it's hard to ignore their idiosyncrasies...

>>17967802
this

>>17967998
German cuisine is very heavy and induces constipation and gases

>>17967919
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>>17967759
Fucking Germans

>>17967905
>“chase him [Satan] away with a fart,” or write to him, “Dear Devil . . . I have shat in my pants and breeches; hang them on your neck and wipe your mouth with them.”
Kek what a disgusting kraut may almighty God deal with him

>>17967998
Who’s the top left

>>17968086
Wilhelm II, German Kaiser and principal instigator of the First World War
>inb4 /his/ incels swarm this post with replies "ACKSHUALLY HE DIDN'T CAUSE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR"

>>17968096
/his/ is French territory (as it should). Germanboos are more common here if anything (even /pol/ has left that ship).

>>17968096
Imagine being french. What hell it must be.

>>17966990
>>translate barbaric as un-German (undeutsch)
Based

>>17966822
Meanwhile the wealthiest branch of the Roman Catholic church (Catholic Church in Germany) is threatening to leave and take all that money with them as Pope Francis desperately begs them not to. Hahahaha.

>>17969505
Source? Why do they want to leave?

>>17969658
German Bishops want a change to the RCC teaching on homosexuality and have also been allowing Protestants to receive communion in Catholic churches.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/246641/head-of-german-catholic-bishops-i-do-not-deny-communion-to-a-protestant-who-asks-for-it

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/german-catholic-bishops-call-for-change-to-catechism-on-homosexuality-84953

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schism-looms-pope-francis-and-the-willfully-rebellious-church-in-germany

>>17967965
This is what I never understood about it. True, the state of 'works' in the Catholic church at the time was absolute shit, but that doesn't mean that you just ditch the importance of living by god.