Martin Luther:

Your home, once the holiest of all, has become the most licentious den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the kingdom of sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that even Antichrist himself, if he should come, could think of nothing to add to its wickedness.

— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

Context

Context: Critique of the Papacy

Date / Period

c. 1520s-1540s

Source

https://ergofabulous.org/luther/insults.html

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