WHAT LUTHER DID NOT KNOW HOW TO SEE

Today is Christmas Eve bagpipe tambourine night because Jesus was born. He is the true God. I see my weapons immersed in the life of a character who always fascinated me: Martin Luther. I have lived in England, a largely Protestant country where I met characters of much better moral character than in Catholic Spain, and I understand some aspects of Lutheran morality: its rejection of pomp and pageantry. Advocating a non-frills Christianity He wanted dry stick churches without altars without saints in the niche and especially in his acrimony against the papacy.

  In view of the way things are going in the Catholic Church led by Bergoglio, I think he is right. As an intriguing politician and demolisher of tradition, the current pontiff closely resembles the popes of Rome at the time of this rebellious Augustinian who became a rebel in spite of him: Leo X and Clement VII were two warlords. The latter pontificated in 1527 when the Sack of Rome.

Some Spanish soldiers mockingly crowned Martin Luther Pope in St. Peter's Basilica. However, Hadrian VI, the famous Hadrian of Utrecht, who was also German, like Emperor Charles V, were lenient and tolerant of his ideas, ideas that set fire to Christianity and Europe ceased to be what it had been.

He did not understand the art, the marvelous cathedrals and the eagerness that the Church had to build the city of God. Being an Augustinian he did not understand his patron saint, the Bishop of Hippo, nor the Greeks.

  His formula was based on bare handwriting. He was a fundamentalist who, an enemy of war and advocating peace, caused the warlike era with which the modern age began with the Flanders wars, the papacy, Francisco I and Enrique VIII.

He didn't miss his theory about indulgences, relics, pilgrimages and sacraments, transubstantiation, pilgrimages. He disregarded a Christianity that was connected to the ancient syncretistic and pre-Christian mythology that Christ, the Christ he loved so much, came to redeem.

The trees, as I say, did not let him see the forest. he is a grim character full of contradictions: ascetic and drinker who, with his theory on Justification by faith, became a libertine. He did not err in his recommendation on the abolition of celibacy (he married a former Augustinian nun Catalina Bora with whom he had six children) he proclaimed himself meek of heart and ended up being violent.

Fighting with his friends like Melachton, the former Swiss friar Zwingli with whom he had epoch-making fights when Zwingli laughed at his theology about the Supper, throwing Martin in the face: "Lutherans want to eat God and drink his blood, you are cannibalistic, diabolical slander. With Erasmus of Rotterdam he collided. because he said that he was a sybarite, a humanist, and thanks to Erasmus he was able to translate the Greek gospel into German. Friendships broke off and the Flemish humanist renounced Luther's exhortation to renounce his vows (Erasmus was also a friar) and stayed in the Catholic Church.

Luther has made me love orthodoxy. I prefer the faith of the coalman. Don't touch it anymore, that's how the rose is and I call myself an altana under the sentence of Thomas Aquinas "credo quia absurdum".

All reforms end badly. Saturn devours his children; It happened with the English schism of Henry VIII and his cruelties that made him Bluebeard. Or the revolutionaries of the Vendome in 1789. Don't touch it anymore. Credo quia absurdum.

The temporal king and the spiritual king, the Vatican with this Pontiff has more of the first than the second, but the popes come and go. His thing is to pass and many of them forget the proclamation that they have to hear at his pontifical coronation. Pater sancte sic transit gloria mundi. Thus passes the glory of the world.

  Our thing is to spend something in which this Christmas Eve Bergoglio and all his lackeys from COPE must be military. They have set aside the great mystical theory between substance and accident. The parents come and go. They are the accident.

Christ is the substance, he is in history. I agree with the German heresiarch on that. His word will not pass away. But Luther had plenty of debating enthusiasm and he lacked the humility of the Christian who is plunged into a sea of unknowns and clings to the table of faith to save himself from shipwreck.

Nor do I condemn Luther or excommunicate him. I think he acted in good faith, but he lacked perspective and self-criticism. There are very arrogant priests who believe they are in possession of the truth. When Luther nailed his 95th Theses to the doors of Wittenberg Cathedral, he had drunk too much. His biographers say that he used to drink and a lot of beer passed through his palate. Blow and march because today is Christmas Eve.

12/24/2022