Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Martin Luther: The Father of the Reformation" video.

Hitler was a Catholic and not a Lutheran. And German anti-semitism existed many hundred years before Luther. German Jews were mass murdered during the 1st Crusade and they were blamed for causing the bubonic plague.
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"Reformation started about a 100 years earlier with John Wycliff and Jan Hus" True. If you had gone back in history and killed Luther, then the Catholic church would probably have fallen apart anyways, and northern Europe would have broken free from Catholic domination in some other way. Catholic dogma, corruption and lust were the reasons. So the Catholic church only got itself to blame for the reformation. "because he made the blueprints for the Holocaust" A claim without proof can also be disproven without providing any proof. So hereby do I disprove your nonsense claim.
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Nope. Catholicism alone is larger than islam which is the 2nd largest religion in the world. Christianity is popular in Africa and Latin America and USA and not just in Europe. And besides Catholics are there also lots of Protestants, Orthodox, Reformed and under groups of Christians.
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Martin Luther - Killed a man in a duel John Knox - Is said the have been a real motherf***er Pope Sixtus IV - Is known for constructing the Sistine chapel and for having children with his own sister. Pope Alexander VI - Killed lots of people and rumor says that he had an incestuous affair with his daughter Pope John XII - Turned the Lateran Palace into a brothel and had sex with his sisters. He died when he had sex with another mans wife. Pope Benedict IX - Married his cousin, and murdered, robbed pilgrims, committed adultery and bestiality in daylight Pope Anacietus II - Took a whore for his mistress, enjoyed incest with his sister and other relatives. Raping nuns was one of his hobbies. Pope Boniface VIII - Was a rapist who also loved sodomy with animals Pope John XXIII - A pirate who obtained the papacy through force, was charged by the Council of Constance for piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, incest and another 50 charges. Nicholas V - Authorized the King of Portugal to war on African peoples, take their property and enslave people. Pope Paul II - Died from a heart attack while he had sex with a young boy Pope Sergius III - Enjoyed sex with underaged girls Pope Benedict XII - Was such a hardened drinker that the expression "drunk as a pope" became popular in his lifetime. Pope Pius II - A well known author of erotic literature, and had fathered about 12 illegitimate children Pope Julius II - Commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the the Sistine Chapel. He was a paedophile and liked wasting church money so he could have his male prostitutes Pope Paul III - Enjoyed an incestuous relationship with his daughter. He killed two cardinals and a Polish bishop to settle an argument over a theological point. Paul III was probably Rome's biggest ever pimp - he kept a roll of about 45,000 prostitutes, who paid him a monthly tribute. Pope Julius III - Sodomized young boys, of which one was his own, illegitimate, son.
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@herrwagnerianer1739 "It was a nation that had borders" People seemed unsure if the Netherlands and Switzerland would be included into that great empire. France and Italy had also been holy Roman land. And the Baltics had been a part of the Teutonic order. So what should have been German, and what should not be? I don't think there was much of a consensus back then. " a citizenry" People spoke their own dialects and local patriotism was strong. I would not be surprised if many considered themselves to be Bavarians or Saxons first and Germans 2nd. "common institutions" Yes, but very weak ones. "And all the sovereignty lay with the Empire" The ruler could not centrally plan everything, and especially not in a country as large as Germany. So much power therefore had to be handed over to local rulers. "No German prince, however powerful, not even Frederick II, ever denied that." Frederick the Great frowned upon the idea of a unified Germany and denied such a thing existed. "only Prussia proper was a sovereign country whereas all other lands were not sovereign but subject to imperial authority." After the Swedish victory in the 30 years war would all small lands be able to determine their own religion and rule themselves to a small degree. They had their own armies and their own currencies. And foreign powers were able to meddle in the affairs of the German parliament and making it less effective. With the conquest of Pomerania was Sweden given a seat at the German parliament and thereby had a saying in how Germany would be runned. And countries like France and Sweden stood outside Germany and guaranteed all small German states (electorates) some degree of independence with military force. "its inhabitants recognised the existence of a German nation" Not Frederick the Great as I said earlier. And Voltaire shared his opinion, as his famous quote tells us: "The holy Roman empire - was neither holy, Roman, or an empire". *"It appealed to the Emperor, to the princes of the Empire, and to the citizenry, all of whom existed in political reality, and asked them to defend the interests of the nation against Roman interference." Some Germans were more loyal to God than to their Emperor. The Investiture Controversy was not an easy affair for the German emperor even if he theoretically was the most powerful wordly ruler in Europe. "The German nation was just as much a political reality in the 16th century as the French or the English nations." Parts of the country broke lose and declared independence (Münster). And the country was in turbulence after the reformation and parts of the country was fighting each other with more or less violent and peaceful means. And in the 1600's would things go so far that Saxony and Brandenburg was in open war with the German emperor. And later would Prussia under Frederick the Great also clash with the Holy Roman empire, despite Brandenburg was a part of it. "He never thought of the German Empire of 1871 as the foundation of the political German nation but rather as a reorganization after its previous dismantling during the Napoleonic era." Napoleon had done much to unify Germany. Baden was an unknown unimportant place in Germany before Napoleon, but after Napoleon took over Germany he gave much land to this province and over night its population grew multifold as well as its land mass. And the hundreds of German mini-states got reduced in numbers and merged into larger states within the German reich. But not everyone liked this new idea. Some local patriots did not like the idea of suddenly becoming Prussians, inhabitants of Baden or whatever.
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He was a Christian like almost all other peoples was back in the early 1900's. How much that would matter for the bad things he have done is up for debate. But personally I do not think there is any doubts that he was a Christian after I have read Mein Kampf which is filled with Christian religious metaphors. Hitler was born in a catholic country and had a catholic mother and he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz, Austria. And he remained a member of the Catholic church up until the year he died. And Hitler never became excommunicated for murdering millions of people. Because the Catholic church thinks that what he did was less of Crime than those of Martin Luther - who got banned from the Catholic church for translating the Bible from Latin into German. And while the Catholic church have banned lots of books and condemned Harry Potter - it have strangely never added Mein Kampf into its list of forbidden books.
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@Three Emperors "He was a nominal Catholic, yes, but he was super anti-clerical" If I remember it correctly was it under his rule that Germany re-introduced prayer in schools and brought back crucifix to them. "so much that he actually said late in the war" He did end support the nationalists in the Spanish civil war and not the anti-religious commies. "appealed to Christians (mainly Protestants, ironically) for votes" He had to because protestants were the majority of the German population, and it would have been impossible to win an election in Germany without their vote. But during the 1920's was the nazi-party only existing in the only Catholic state in Germany - Bavaria. Bavaria was the German stronghold for the nazi party. Furthermore, did Catholics only make up 8% of Germany(+Austria's) population. But 20% of the members of the SS were members of the SS. So it seems like Catholics were more into nazism than the north German protestants. "He dabbled in the occult" I consider this to be made up rubbish by American television. Perhaps a tiny insignificant amount of nazis were into this nonsense, like Alfred Rosenberg. But otherwise was this the minority view in Germany. Most of the population were Christians. And most of the German leadership were Christians. On every belt of a German soldier you could read Gott mit uns ("God with us"). Which is an old Christian battle cry from the thirty years war. How could that be if Germany was anti-Christian? Why did they put a Christian slogan on every German soldiers uniform? "I'm Protestant, so I'm not trying to defend Catholicism." Many protestants are like that. They hate their own countries and wish that the Catholics had won the 30 years war. I guess this is the same mentality that left-wing jews in the western world have, as they constantly side with Palestine against Israel. Personally as a Swede I will not apologize for a goddamn thing for what the Swedish army did in Germany. The Catholics were the bad guys in this conflict, so screw them.
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Do a biography about Howard Moskowitz
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