Martin Luther: The Jews' Friend

An idea I had while browsing the Wikipedia article for the magnificently titled "The Jews And Their Lies". It seems to claim that Luther's anti-semitism came after he tried kosher food for a month, and suffered severe stomach upsets as a result, leading him to believe that Jews were mocking him with their superior constitutions. Before this he was a good goy, and afterwards he was a raving anti-Semitic loonie.

So, then. Two PODs here:

  1. He doesn't try the kosher diet. Hence no Judophobic ramblings.
  2. He tries the kosher diet. Yum! I must steal these recipes...
Let's follow the second one for now, since a kosher Lutheranism would be AWESOME. How does Lutheranism develop?
 
I thought it was becasue Jews refused to convert to his own version of Christianity, which was kinda a downer for him?
 

Nikephoros

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I thought it was becasue Jews refused to convert to his own version of Christianity, which was kinda a downer for him?

Considering the times, that is much more likely to be the cause.

EDIT: Then again, the OP is not likely the cause of anti-Semitism.
 
well antisemitism was more or less part of european folklore of the day, but Martin Luther basically institutionalised it, and made it an intrinsic part of germanic culture
had he not been antisemit (wich is ASB, but ok lets have fun with the hipotesis) antisemitism would still remain part of europwan customns, but might become less and less important and much less popular, and could die out more or less with the end of the wichunts, or maybe a little later, becoming just a historic fact by the start of the 20th century
 

Valdemar II

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well antisemitism was more or less part of european folklore of the day, but Martin Luther basically institutionalised it, and made it an intrinsic part of germanic culture
had he not been antisemit (wich is ASB, but ok lets have fun with the hipotesis) antisemitism would still remain part of europwan customns, but might become less and less important and much less popular, and could die out more or less with the end of the wichunts, or maybe a little later, becoming just a historic fact by the start of the 20th century


I'm grateful that you can tell me that antisemitism is an intrinsic part of my culture.
 

Keenir

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An idea I had while browsing the Wikipedia article for the magnificently titled "The Jews And Their Lies". It seems to claim that Luther's anti-semitism came after he tried kosher food for a month,

:rolleyes: at wiki. Luther had stomach upsets almost from the first day of being a monk (if not earlier).

though a kosher Lutheranism...hm. the Roman Church might try drawing parallels between Lutheranism and Passagianism, both being heresies which claimed that the faithful must obey Jewish dietary law.

(the Passagians, however, went an extra step - they said the faithful have to hold to all the Jewish laws --- or at least that's the impression I got from a large book of Heresies of the High Middle Ages)
 
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