Martin Luther:

Reason is the Devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil's appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who should be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom... Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and should be drowned in baptism... She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished from the sight of God.

— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

Context

Against the Heavenly Prophets in the Matter of Images and Sacrament, 1525

Date / Period

1525

Source

https://books.google.com/books?id=b9A0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191&dq=Reason+is+t…

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