"If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth."
— Martin Luther

January 1, 1970

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To the Christian Nobility of the German States (1520), translated by Charles M. Jacobs, reported in rev. James Atkinson, The Christian in Society, I (Luther's Works, ed. James Atkinson, vol. 44), p. 207 (1966)