Martin Luther Was Violently Hateful Towards Jewish People
If you’re a Christian, you already know that Martin Luther was a 16th Century monk who broke away from the Catholic Church and began the Protestant Reformation. Plenty of Catholics followed him, and he began his new religion. But Jewish people refused to budge, and kept believing in their original faith.
This made Martin Luther so angry, that he wrote an entire book titled On the Jews and Their Lies. As you can imagine, the book was incredibly anti semitic. He even encouraged his followers to burn down synagogues if they wanted to prove their loyalty to Christianity. He had the ability to make people so angry, that he was a major cause of a bloody uprising known as the German Peasants War.
