"Protestantism itself, in its early phases, was plainly a movement toward mysticism: its purpose, at least in theory, was to remove the priestly veil separating man from the revealed Word of God. But that veil was restored almost instantly, and by the year 1522, five years after Wittenberg, Luther was damning the Anabaptists with all the ferocious certainty of a medieval Pope, and his followers were docily accepting his teaching."
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H. L. Mencken "Treatise on the Gods", (1930), Ch. 1.
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Martin Luther
1483 – 1546
deutscher Theologe und Reformator
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