Again, the Lord wills that whoever confesses his sins and believes the absolution should be forgiven. 'No,' says ass-pope fart, 'faith does nothing; but your own repentance and atonement do, as well as the recounting of all your secret, forgotten, and unrecognized sins.'
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German theologian whose 95 Theses (1517) launched the Protestant Reformation and broke the Catholic Church's monopoly on Western Christianity. Closely associated with Philipp Melanchthon (Lutheran systematizer) and John Calvin (later Reformer who built on Luther's break). For an intellectual contrast, see Pope Leo X, Renaissance pope (1513-1521) — Leo X's indulgence sales triggered Luther's break and Leo excommunicated him in 1521 — Luther's entire Reformation is structured as a direct answer to the indulgence-funded Vatican Leo represented.
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Luther argues that God promises forgiveness to anyone who openly admits their wrongs and trusts the priest's words of pardon. He mocks opponents who claim belief alone isn't enough, insisting instead that sinners must personally feel sorry, make up for the offense, and list every single hidden or forgotten sin from memory. Luther sees that demand as an impossible burden that undermines the simple gospel promise of free forgiveness through faith.
This captures Luther's signature theology of justification by faith alone and his scorched-earth rhetoric against the papacy, whom he literally names 'ass-pope.' A former Augustinian friar tormented by confession's impossible demands, Luther rejected Rome's penance system requiring enumeration of every sin, contrition, and satisfaction. His crude scatological insults toward popes were a trademark, and his insistence that absolution works through faith in Christ's promise defined the Reformation he launched in 1517.
Luther wrote amid the early modern Catholic sacramental system, where annual confession mandated by the Fourth Lateran Council required listing every mortal sin. Indulgences sold by Tetzel in 1517 sparked Luther's 95 Theses. The printing press spread his German pamphlets across a fragmenting Holy Roman Empire. By the 1530s-40s, confessional lines hardened, popes Leo X through Paul III excommunicated reformers, and Luther's increasingly vulgar polemics reflected the bitter, irreversible split tearing Western Christendom apart.
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