#martin luther of germany

[haleviyah]

Andrew Torba has just announced Israeli's have been banned from using Gab(dot)com, a Christian themed Reddit-like forum. He may blame porn bots or scammers for the reason of proposing blocking Israeli IP addresses, however I have watched this man since 2020, his reasons are as fickle as his arguments.

At one point he went as far as channeling Hitler's ghost by stressing the Jews are to blame for the current economic issue, completely ignoring that the government has been purposely printing money and reckless spending that led to the American dollar to be devalued recently.

There are other instances where he suggested as reviving the Constantine-style of economic strategy only giving leeway for Christians - turning this parallel economy into a three way fight, when it should be a team effort to bring the country back from the brink of collapse. From a former-Christian's perspective, I know exactly what Torba is doing: He is purposely trying to implement the the Four Horsemen to destroy America from the inside out. Instead of political or personal affairs motivating him (like a certain senile man is doing in the White House) Torba is destroying American in the name of Christian doctrines, however it's failing.

Torba's main weakness is the use of the internet and dependancy on technology. Alas, despite his only audience being people who don't have a life outside of the box they created the dominion Torba's feeding the main issue.

We worry about caliphate of radical Islam, well radical Christianity is just as dangerous - do we really want another battle of Jerusalem again? Consider the mass slaughter of children, the casualty rate you are going to be dealing with, Torba! If you think you can go up against that ideology armed with ChatBots and no military experience you're a bigger imbecile than I thought.

Even worse: If you even dare to go against Israel like you are now- you're done for, Torba.

DONE.

No exceptions. Don't you dare hide behind your Jesus, grow some balls and own your mistakes like a man!

You extort everyone with your "If they hate Jesus they don't belong here." excuse. So anyone who questions your messiah is basically treated like a nobody? Like you were before you found salvation in Him... is that it?

What happened to "Do unto others as you want others to do unto you?" or "Love your neighbour as yourself?" - do you hate yourself that much you have nothing to offer but bitterness and indifference?

You violated Romans 11 and Leviticus 19 and that is between you an G-d, and I don't care if you write a news letter about me and send it to my inbox - do it! Let's see if you feel better at the end of the day!

You are not an example of Christ. Completely the opposite, you hate everyone even those who share His bloodline. Replacement theology is your agenda, not reaching out the world and helping others. You lack forgiveness and now you will reap the consequences of this.

I've heard of suicide bombing, but this is the first ever coming from a Christian Crusader.

On a bit of lighter news, guess who was just banned from Twitter:

This is going to be you Torba!

You don't to share this world with us, we don't have to share this world with you!

p.s. To any Christians reading this, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves for allowing people like this guy to get away with hating G-d's Chosen People... not the TV show - HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE. Israel! And for what, to avoid a fight? To wait for your Christ to make the fight stop? Jesus would be disgusted of this lukewarm attitude you have if you care of his opinion so much. Either you do something, or be uprooted and burned like wheat by their hatred - it's your choice.

[twilight-zoned-out]

Halloween? More like Hallo Reformation

-Martin Luther

[solreefs]

I’m a simple thing, my history class mentions something tangentially related to my special interest and I’m immediately vibrating out of my seat waving my hands around throwing my stim toys across the room

[leftistfeminista]

Tübke created the image of an entire epoch, the Renaissance , which is often described in literature as "theatrum mundi" (world theater). In doing so, he in no way limited himself to a snapshot that could be precisely determined in terms of time or space, let alone the faithful reproduction of real historical events, nor to the emphasis on individual aspects. In addition to the historical figures such as Müntzer and Luther , who also appear, the painter has a large number of allegorical allusions to events (also from other epochs), but above all to innate human fears, to superstition ,apocalyptic ideas and biblical themes visualized in his powerful suggestive imagery. In addition, he took numerous borrowings from contemporary paintings and woodcuts. In addition, he immortalized himself in a few places as a person plagued by self-doubt in view of the almost superhuman task, thus documenting the process of creating his work.

The center of the depiction - the section that is reproduced in most of the illustrations in the painting - is the panorama of the Battle of Frankenhausen itself, with Thomas Müntzer at the centre. While the fighting is still raging around Müntzer, he already lowers the flag of the Bundschuh movement - he knows that his cause is lost. Death is already approaching him with the bagpipes. Müntzer is not the shining hero here, but a tired, broken man.

Separated from the battle by a hedge, Tübke has grouped important personalities of the time around a fountain in the same part of the picture, including Albrecht Dürer and Martin Luther .

Tübke described Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach the Elder as his artistic role models and in his style combined his own techniques with unmistakable borrowings from the Old Masters and (especially for this monumental work) contemporary methods of representation. In several years of preparation, he has familiarized himself with the world of ideas and artistic representation of this epoch between the late Middle Ages and early modern times through intensive study of sources .

Although larger rotundas exist, Tübke's work is considered unique. It is not a pictorial-documentary snapshot in the manner of a typical “battle painting”, but can be regarded as a metaphorical overall representation in a panorama as a prototype of its own genre.

There are two different interpretations of the painting today. One assumes that Tübke created an allegory of the doomed GDR through his portrayal. Just as Thomas Müntzer has to admit that his vision of a better future for the simple rural population has failed, so has the GDR leadership's vision of a socialist state in which the human being is the measure of all things. Eduard Beaucamp , art critic for the FAZ and one of Tübke's early supporters in the West, judged:

"The Thuringian Peasants' War Panorama (1976 to 1987) is not a large-scale didactic illustration, but a historical parable of human trials and tribulations with a perspective on social unrest, upheavals and religious struggles of the modern age, on a world not on the move but in the frenzy of a late period: world history is taking place as judgment of the world.”“All of these commissioned pictures are based on a deep dissent with the ideological GDR party program. The projects could be cloaked and justified with the “inheritance” debate. In almost all of his "history pictures" Tübke developed his skeptical, even historically pessimistic view and not the desired image of progress in the GDR - the view of a return of the same, which is never the same." (FAZ, May 29, 2004)

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The second interpretation hypothesis assumes a general transience of all being - a view that is underlined by the character of the painting as a round image. This perspective is not just limited to the failure of the peasant uprisings under Thomas Müntzer – the historical parallel that was invoked in the GDR – but in general to all social processes at this and other times. All is lost not only for Müntzer and his peasant armies, but also for the nobility, church and bourgeoisie. Gerd Lindner, director of the Panorama Museum , interprets the painting as follows:

“I think the work is timeless because the painter has developed an image of history that is very subjective. In a nutshell, one could say that it shows the eternal recurrence of the same, the basic social problems remain the same, that is the basic message of the picture, presented in a total form, i.e. in a circular form without beginning or end, so that the story as A continuum appears, without linear upward development, which was in blatant contradiction to the official view of history in the GDR."

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Christina Tilmann said after Werner Tübke's death:

"It's a carnival

, a masked festival, but also always a deeply pessimistic

dance of death

on the ruins of civilization that Werner Tübke stages. Full of admiration for the mastery of the ancestors, but at the same time imbued with the melancholic awareness that this heyday of civilization has long since passed, giving way to a more barbaric epoch.”

The painting was officially commissioned by the GDR Ministry of Culture , which implemented a decision by the SED Politburo of October 9, 1973. Ulbricht came to an end in the early 1970sera there was also a change in the cultural-political doctrine of the SED. More diversity and acceptance, including art that is not exclusively committed to real socialism, should on the one hand raise international reputation, and on the other hand also facilitate the appropriation of historical figures and events as “revolutionary” predecessors of the “first socialist state on German soil”, whose legacy is now recognized by the GDR as a more natural inheritance is realized. Thomas Müntzer was stylized as the most important early revolutionary in Germany, the peasant uprisings of the early 16th century according to Karl Marx 's historical-philosophical views as part of an "early bourgeois revolution" that marked the transition from feudalism toushered in early capitalism . Admiration for Thomas Müntzer was expressed, for example, by the fact that he was featured on the GDR 5 mark banknote from 1975.

[immaculatasknight]

Hidden history

[monorayjak]

Daily Answer

Daily writing promptDo you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?View all responses I have a few that I have written down for a variety of reasons, here’s eight off the list I have that I feel are important(anything written in these parenthesis are why I like/remember it + who/where it’s from): “Look, kid, everyone wants to believe they’re “chosen”. But if we all waited around…

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

It had been ages since we'd been up to the top of the tower of the church (the Schlosskirche, or All Saints' Church) in Wittenberg, Germany, to whose door Martin Luther nailed his theses just over 500 years ago.  As an added bonus, the Elbe River was in flood, so we absolutely had to go up to take a look around.  Here's what we saw on the 28th of December, 2023.

Sorry that the wind is so loud sometimes.  It was crazy windy and cold up there!

-Christina

[mt1820today]

The English Bible that came from Germany - Reformation Day 2023

When tourists come to the city of Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate, a visit to the so-called “Luther Monument” is of course a “must”. But the monument known as the “Luther Monument” is actually not an individual monument to the German reformer from Wittenberg, but a monument to the Reformation and its outstanding personalities per se. In addition to the figure of Luther, the world’s largest…

[dijetemjeseca]

Holy Trinity Church, 1709-1725., Market Square, Worms, Germany

[thethief1996]

Israel has just bombed a hospital where hundreds of wounded and refugees were taking solace. Journalists in Gaza have reported there was hardly a single body whole in the aftermath (If you can stomach it, there's a video of a father holding what remains of his child). At least 500 people killed by IOF soldiers, who planned this action, got into an airplane and dropped that bomb willingly. The deadliest attack in five wars, according to the Ministry of Health.

Israel has denied ownership of the attack and said it was a misfired Hamas rocket. Originally, they celebrated it on their social media, saying they had destroyed a Hamas target, treating the deaths like an unfortunate collateral. After international backlash, they posted videos to their social media claiming it was a Hamas rocket. The video, though, shows a second explosion 40 minutes after the airstrike, and they edited it our of their tweet in a pathetic attempt at covering up.

Israel has said multiple times that they were going to bomb hospitals. They told doctors to evacuate and leave their patients to death because they were going to bomb, namely: Al Shifa, Shuhada Al Aqsa and the Quwaiti Hospital. Al Shifa housed at least 10.000 refugees and wounded, and worked as a hub for the press because it was one of the only hospitals that still had working generators. Medical crew worked with sirens blaring to signal the hospitals were not empty. This was a purposeful massacre. These people died hungry, thirsty and in pain because of the Israeli government's cruelty.

CNN and other media outlets already tried to pin the blame on Hamas, parroting back the pathetic propaganda being sold by the IOF. Even in death, Palestinians can't be respected and are used to further their own oppression. These people's deaths are not going to be in vain. Within our lifetimes, Palestine will be free.

Take action. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting today after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works.

FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls

FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails

FOR PEOPLE IN GERMANY: Here's a toolkit to contact your representatives by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN IRELAND: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN POLAND: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN DENMARK: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN SWEDEN: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

Protests in support have already erupted in Beirut, Madrid and Rabat in response to the shelling of the hospital. Join your local protest and raise your voices. For people in the US, Israel has just asked for additional $10bi in aid on top of the annual $3.8bi already given to them. Palestinians are asking that you refuse this loudly, with their every breath.

Here's a constantly updating list of protests:

Global calendar

USA calendar

Here are upcoming events:

WASHINGTON, DC: Outside Congress on 18/10 at 12 PM

WASHINGTON, DC: NATIONAL MARCH in front of the White House on 4/11 at 12 PM

SAN DIEGO: 2125 Pan American E Rd. (Spreckles Organ Pavillion) on 18/10 at 7 PM

NEW YORK: 72nd st. And 5th ave., Brooklyn on 21/10 at 2 PM

NEW YORK: CUNY Grad Building on 18/10 at 2 PM

NEW YORK: Oct 18, 5pm, Steinway & Astoria Blvd.

DALLAS: 1954 Commerce Street (Dallas Morning News Building) on 19/10 at 3 PM

[CAR RALLY] KITCHENER-WATERLOO: Fairview Park, 2960 Kingsway Dr. on 18/10 at 6 PM

KITCHENER-WATERLOO: CBC Building, 117 King St. W on 19/10 at 5 PM

HOUSTON: Zionist Consulate, 24 Greenway Plaza on 18/10 at 4 PM

OMAHA: 72nd St & Dodge St on 18/10 at 6 PM

SAINT PAUL, MN: Oct. 18, 5:30pm. State Capitol, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

BALTIMORE: Oct 20, 6pm. Baltimore City Hall

DUBLIN: Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 1 on 18/10 at 5 PM

THURLES: Liberty Square on 19/10 at 7 PM

LURGAN: Market Street on 21/10 at 3 PM

PORTO ALEGRE: Rua João Alfredo, 61 on 18/10 at 19h

RIO DE JANEIRO: Cinelândia on 19/10 at 17h

RECIFE: Parque Treze de Maio on 19/10 at 17h

MANAUS: Teatro Amazonas, Largo de São Sebastião on 19/10 at 17h

SÃO PAULO: Praça Oswaldo Cruz on 22/10 at 11h

FOZ DO IGUAÇU: Praça da Paz on 22/10 at 9h

TSHWANE: Belgrade Square Park, Jan Shoba Street on 20/10 at 10 AM

VEREENIGING: Roshnee Sports Grounds on 21/10 at 14h30

Feel free to add more resources

[quotesfrommyreading]

It has been all too easy for historians to look back at the course of German history from the vantage-point of 1933 and interpret almost anything that happened in it as contributing to the rise and triumph of Nazism. This had led to all kinds of distortions, with some historians picking choice quotations from German thinkers such as Herder, the late eighteenth-century apostle of nationalism, or Martin Luther, the sixteenth-century founder of Protestantism, to illustrate what they argue are ingrained German traits of contempt for other nationalities and blind obedience to authority within their own borders. Yet when we look more closely at the work of thinkers such as these, we discover that Herder preached tolerance and sympathy for other nationalities, while Luther famously insisted on the right of the individual conscience to rebel against spiritual and intellectual authority. Moreover, while ideas do have a power of their own, that power is always conditioned, however indirectly, by social and political circumstances, a fact that historians who generalized about the 'German character' or 'the German mind' all too often forgot.

  —  The Coming of the Third Reich (Richard J. Evans)

[filosofablogger]

Greta Thunberg Carries On!

I first wrote about Greta Thunberg in December 2018, featuring her in a ‘good people’ post.  Since then, I have written about or mentioned her no less than 22 times!  Since the first time she crossed my radar, I’ve said that this young woman is going to change the world … and she is doing just that, bit by bit!  She doesn’t just talk the talk, but she walks the walk, and a few times lately that…

[leftistfeminista]

GDR theses on the Luther year 1983

On this occasion we recall how the GDR and the SED determined their relationship to the evangelical Christians, using the example of the theses for the 500th birthday of Martin Luther:

GDR theses on the Luther year 1983

On the occasion of the 500th birthday of Martin Luther, a working group of scientists from the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and representatives of the universities wrote 15 "theses about Martin Luther". It said:Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) paved the way for the great intellectual and political conflicts with which Germany and Europe entered the epoch of the decline of feudalism, the development of manufacturing capitalism and the first bourgeois revolutions. He is one of the great personalities of German history of world importance.The German Democratic Republic is deeply rooted in all of German history. When

socialist German state, it is the result of the centuries-long struggle of all progressive forces of the German people for social progress. Everything that was progressive in German history and all those who brought it about belong to its indispensable traditions that shape national identity. “The progressive traditions that we maintain and carry on include the work and legacy of all those who have contributed to progress, to the development of world culture, regardless of their social and class affiliation” (Erich Honecker). In this sense, the GDR honors Martin Luther's historical achievements and nurtures the progressive legacy he left behind.

I. (...) The given social and ecclesiastical conditions determined the central importance of theology in the political, social and ideological debates and the religious justification of the revolutionary demands. Martin Luther triggered the Reformation with his fight against the "international center of the feudal system" (Friedrich Engels). Therein lies its lasting historical merit. The Reformation became an essential part of the beginning revolution, formed the ideological bracket for the very different class forces that supported it and provided the framework for their rapid differentiation in the further course of the revolutionary process. The revolution culminated in the German Peasants' War of 1525, which ended in defeat.II. (...) With this (ie with his critique of the sale of indulgences, ME) Martin Luther created theological foundations for the development of a Reformation ideology that achieved revolutionary effects under the given social conditions; for reformation meant not only a reform of the church, but a more or less far-reaching change in society. Martin Luther's personal achievement for the development of the early bourgeois revolution was to have defended this foundation tenaciously and undeterred, which his opponents repeatedly forced upon him.

III. (...) Bourgeois upper classes and forces associated with early capitalism, the councils in many cities saw their own interests expressed in this or adopted these goals as their own. The Reformation unleashed potential to promote the incipient transition from feudalism to capitalism. This gave it an essentially bourgeois-progressive character. At the same time, a people's movement for the Reformation developed, initially supported by the bourgeois-urban opposition, whose forces enthusiastically supported Luther (...)

V. (...) The people's movement used the arguments and biblical justifications provided by Luther and the other reformers, but did not restrict itself to leave the fulfillment of their demands to the good will of the authorities alone, in the spirit of Luther.Since 1523/24, the relationship to the authorities and the question of how to achieve the goals of the Reformation became the most important point of contention between Luther and the popular movement. At first, Martin Luther still partially supported the popular movement and tried to bridge the widening gap to the opposition of the noble estates, although he was now being criticized and attacked by forces that were pushing ahead, especially Thomas Müntzer, and he was in turn dealing with them. While still in the Wartburg, he justified the abolition of the Mass in Wittenberg, the invalidity of monastic vows, the introduction of the lay chalice and the German language in worship, the transfer of church assets to municipal administration and their use for the poor.At the beginning of 1523, Luther established the secularization program of the middle-class, moderate Reformation. This program aimed to transform spiritual property into secular property, primarily for the benefit of secular feudal lords, the upper classes, and the community.

Luther elevated the congregation's right to make decisions to a principle of the Reformation. Up until 1524, Luther developed his program of the Reformation, which was to be carried out peacefully in alliance with the secular authorities. To the extent that the popular movement became radicalized and also turned against secular feudalism and the princes, Luther turned his back on it. ...VIII. Martin Luther's Reformation had a lasting effect on European countries. It promoted the resolution of fundamental contradictions of feudal society and therefore very quickly became a European phenomenon, accelerating the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Europe thus entered the era of bourgeois revolutions, in which over the next few centuries the bourgeoisie gradually gained political power as well as economic power. ...X. The early Reformation was a very broad movement for revolutionary transformation, heterogeneous in terms of class, encompassing all social strata. The victory of the princes over the rebellious people in the Peasants' War curtailed the class base of this movement and, in cooperation with the bourgeois upper classes, ensured the maintenance of feudal class rule. ...

XII. With the foundation of historical materialism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels also created the outlines for a scientific view of the Reformation and Martin Luther. They paid tribute to Luther as the initiator of the Reformation and this as the first decisive battle of the European bourgeoisie against feudalism. At the same time, they showed that the Peasants' War and Thomas Müntzer, to which the revolutionary workers' movement feels particularly committed, embodied the necessary consequence of the impetus given by Luther. (...)Distinguishing between Martin Luther's epochal historical achievement, his class limitations and the reactionary misuse of his legacy, the revolutionary German labor movement has opposed the unholy alliance of thrones that invoked Luther's name for its purposes. She neither heroized nor disregarded Luther, but honored his place in the diversity of progressive and revolutionary movements in German history.

 ...XV. With the victory of the working class and its allies, with the construction and shaping of socialism, the social prerequisites have been created in the German Democratic Republic for Martin Luther to be honored scientifically and fairly from all sides. We honor the fighters of past generations who, under their conditions, used their personality to advance progress and enriched culture. We appreciate them critically without overlooking their time and class contradictions and applying unhistorical standards. (...)The GDR maintains the memorials for Martin Luther and the Reformation and respects the spiritual uniqueness of the associated cultural and ethical values. Like all other religious communities in the GDR, the Protestant churches inspired by and based on Luther have constitutionally guaranteed broad opportunities for their activity. In view of the more complicated world situation, all citizens of the GDR, including Christians, are committed to peace-stabilizing measures, detente and effective disarmament in the struggle to find a solution to mankind's vital problem in the present, namely the maintenance of peace. Evangelical Christians of a Lutheran character, like all other believers, have proven themselves as co-creators of the developed socialist society.

They work self-sacrificingly in caring for the handicapped and sick, children and the elderly, not least because of their Christian commitment to charity, especially in the diakonia. In doing so, they preserve and enrich their specific historical traditions, which have helped to shape and enrich the culture and ethics of German and other countries over the centuries.The party and government of the GDR were and are always open to the humanitarian concerns of the Christian churches and have always taken care to work together in this spirit. 

Luther's progressive legacy is preserved in the socialist German national culture. Last but not least, the founding of the Martin Luther Committee of the German Democratic Republic under the chairmanship of Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED and Chairman of the State Council of the GDR bears witness to this. The appreciation of Luther and his work also includes the efforts and the struggle of those forces who are fighting today for social justice, progress and peace in the world with reference to the teaching, example and achievements of Martin Luther. "May the honors on his 500th birthday, as befits the worldwide impact of the reformer,

#From: Journal of History 29 (1981), pp. 879-893.

https://archive.ph/4g2yk

[lyndaanneshop]

Come Explore Eisenach, in the state of Thüringen, Germany

Our assignment in German class this week was to research a city in Germany. I cannot ignore my fascination with one German man who changed the world. A stay in Germany would not be complete for me without visiting the stomping grounds of Martin Luther. “On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses against papal indulgences, or the atonement of sins through monetary payment,…

[wolfie-wolfgang]

Martin Luther wos here. I didn’t see him. Wittenberg whizzed by.