Hell, we don’t have to go that deep down the rabbit hole. I loved the post but we could also have go to the beginnings of Christianity and the ever beloved first protestant, Martin (Mad Man) Luther for an example of Christian bogotry and hatred.
Erik Erikson, American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity crisis. for example, emphasized that Martin Luther was not only neurotic, but psychotic as well. This accusation implies that one of our great heroes of the faith is one whose sanity is seriously questioned.
*Luther falsely predicted his own death 6 times.
*The real-life Luther was a man passionately convicted of his own rightness, so convinced that he thought anyone who disagreed with him was either ignorant, stupid, or evil.
*He was knocked from his horse by lightening and that spurred him to become a monk.
*He would go into the confessional and recite the previous day’s sins not for five minutes, but for two hours, three hours, sometimes even four hours—reciting in detail every sin he could remember. (Compulsive Whack-job.) This is a neurotic preoccupation with guilt.
*Luther’s break from the Catholic Church, helped to unleash a massive popular (and bloody) uprising called the German Peasants’ War.
- Luther’s Admonition to Peace was published in early 1525. His admonition to peace having failed, Luther’s new position can fairly be characterized as an admonition to massacre. In May of 1525, he published a work originally titled Against the Rioting Peasants , the title of which was quickly changed to Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants , in which he called on everyone to kill the peasants, en masse:
*Luther started off supporting the Jews and speaking out against Catholic prejudices; however, The Jews didn’t en masse convert to Lutheranism. So Luther turned against them, becoming increasingly antagonistic towards the Jews throughout his life. - One of the last works Luther ever wrote was his 1543 book On the Jews and Their Lies , published just three years before his dead. The book is chock full of the standard anti-Semitic conspiracy theories…’
Luther offered a seven-fold solution to his Jewish problem:
- Set fire to the Synagogs
- Destroy their homes
- Take away their writings.
- Kill any Rabbi that teaches.
- Kill Jews if you see them on the highways. (No safe conduct.)
- Steal all their wealth from them.
- No Jew should have a position higher than a Christian, Make them toil in labor with axes, spades, brooms, etc…