Martin Luther Quotes
That no one shall play at any dissolute game or at any game whatsoever it may be, neither for gold nor silver nor for any excessive stake, upon penalty of 5 sous and forfeiture of stake played for.
Martin Luther, 1483-1546, German Theologian & Founder of Protestantism, Ordinances For The Regulation of the Churches Dependent Upon the Seigniory of Geneva, 1547
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While only certain kinds of songs were prohibited, all dancing was. This prohibition exists to this day in some Protestant sects.
In 17th century England the Puritans were major opponents of the Celebration of Christmas which at the time had been celebrated mostly by Roman Catholics.
The major targets of this law were the Puritans who would not attend the normal Church of England services but had their own, usually in a private home.
It is this proclamation and others like it that caused many of the American Founding Fathers to include the doctrine of separation of church and state. In this case, and many others, the government actually proscribed and controlled the prayers and the liturgy. See {617532} where the government proscribes the proportion of revenues that must be spent on the poor.
What the historian did not know was how similarly the Protestants would behave against the Catholics when they had the power. Since the Catholics were the established church, and the Protestants the new “heretics” the Protestants were on the receiving end of most of the atrocities at the beginning. However, as if they had been scholled by their horrible experiences, they repeated them just exchanging the perpetrators and the victims.
the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque
motivates him as opposed to a plot He had entered the Catholic cathedral in Lisbon, and in the middle of the mass, wrested the host away from the bishop and trampled it on the ground. The Catholics thought that the Protestant English were about to launch a plot to establish a reformed church in Portugal. They arrested all Englishmen in Portugal. Finally, after much torture, the decision was reached that Gardener acted on his own, and he was roasted alive.
Henry of Navarre. The practice of kidnapping children from parents of the other faith and baptizing them was rampant.
Henry of Navarre. Only 26 years earlier 50,000 Protestant Huguenots were slaughtered by the Catholics. The sectarian hatred was extreme. The King who had been a Protestant had converted to Catholicism, the faith of the vast majority of Frenchmen. Among the many different and usually futile efforts of reconciliation, the edict of the King ordering all subjects to forget the past was one of the more fascinating attempts.
Henry of Navarre. This edict made the Huguenots and other Protestants legal in France whereas only 26 years earlier 50,000 of them had been slaughtered in France by the Catholics. It wasn’t a century before the Catholics reneged. See {617765}.
Reflection on the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1850
At the time he was referring to Protestants & Catholics. Today we have Muslims vs. Jews & Christians.
It was uttered in the King’s name by soldiers and officials throughout the land. It is not certain that the exact words of choice were created by Louis but they were uttered in his name. Protestants had been given the right to practice their religion in France by the King’s grandfather (the Edict of Nantes {617664}), but Louis XIV rescinded that {617765} and gave Protestants this choice. Some converted. Some were murdered. Some escaped to other countries.
The Protestants had been given the right to practice their religion free from harm by the King’s grandfather. See {617664}. The inter-religious animosity continued and the Catholics again tried to make France an exclusively Catholic country.
In this document written in his later years, he virulently attacks the Jews in vicious and crude language. This is a very different Martin Luther than his earlier years. See {617772}
With the exception of during church, drinking was allowed. However, inviting others to drink was prohibited. In a sense there is a modern European parallel in that drinking is legal in most countries but advertising alcohol on television is not. The deed is allowed; the marketing, not.
Followers of the religious views of January Hus, 1369-1415 Hus was excommunicated and executed for his views that parts of the church were corrupt.
This notice of Excommunication was promulgated to the Catholic clergy in Ireland in May of 1538. It required all Roman Catholic leaders to size the property of Protestants or Catholics who sympathized with them. Those who did were then regarded as traitors by the Protestant King. The anti-Protestant feeling culminated with the massacre of about 100 Protestants who were drowned in Bann a few years later.
Martin Luther, O.S.A. was a German professor of theology, priest, author, composer, Augustinian monk, and a seminal figure in the Reformation. Luther was ordained to the priesthood in 1507. He came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; in particular, he disputed the view on indulgences. Luther proposed an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. His refusal to renounce all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor.
