Secondly, their homes also should be razed and destroyed. For they pursue the same aims in them as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies, in order that they may realize that they are not masters in our land, as they boast, but miserable captives, as they incessantly lament and wail.
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"The pope is the Antichrist."
"You Mr pope. are a brothel keeper. and the devil's daughter in hell."
"Tomorrow I have to lecture on the drunkenness of Noah [Gen. 9:20-27], so I should drink enough this evening to be able to talk about that wickedness as one who knows by experience."
"Whoever smells it first, out of him it crept."
"The papacy is the kingdom of the devil, and the pope is the Antichrist."
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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The speaker demands that a targeted group's houses be demolished because he sees their homes as extensions of their religious gathering places. He proposes forcing them into shared shelters or barns, treating them like wandering outsiders, so they understand they hold no ownership or authority in the country and instead live as powerless prisoners rather than the privileged residents he accuses them of claiming to be.
This comes from Luther's 1543 tract On the Jews and Their Lies, written late in his life when his earlier hope of converting Jewish communities had soured into bitter hostility. The same theological certainty that drove him to defy the Pope at Worms hardened into cruel policy prescriptions. It reveals a darker side of the reformer whose German Bible translation and doctrine of justification by faith reshaped Western Christianity.
In 1543 Germany, Jewish communities lived under precarious toleration, often confined to specific towns and subject to expulsion. Luther's Reformation had fractured Christendom, and competing confessions sought political legitimacy by proving their orthodoxy. His pamphlet influenced Saxon authorities to expel Jews and later provided rhetorical ammunition that Nazi propagandists quoted four centuries afterward, making it a disturbing example of how theological disputes of the early modern period produced lasting consequences.
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