Martin Luther was a Potty Mouth

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru4DiHVSAYU

Yep...he and Erasmus used to correspond with Latin curses.

Yeah. My history professor stressed that Luther was quite the earthy German peasant of the time "with a sausage in one hand, and a beer stein in the other", and would say things in letters like "I cant wait to get home from this trip so I can penetrate my wife".

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I've read that Martin Luther might have had scrupulosity OCD and was tormented by the image of "the Devil’s behind".

Yeah,the Devil's booty really fills that blue dress out.Luther didn't stand a chance if he was a back door man.

Well...yeah...that sounds like its related to what I was taught in that course. Have been trying just now to track it down online, but cant find it. But Luther was plagued by lower intestinal issues for years. Don't remember the exact story. But one day he was in a rest room sitting on the can struggling with both constipation, and with theological questions, at the same time. And the moment he came to a certain theological conclusion- the solid matter got expelled. Both issues were solved at once ( I guess that there was some kind psychosomatic connection between his religious questions and his bowel issues). And that theological insight lead to him joining a local debate club at a college. And that in turn lead him to accidently triggering the entire Protestant Reformation that would shake up all of Christendom.

So yeah I can imagine him having obsessions with the Devil's posterior since the theological and lower intestinal seemed to be connected for him.

As a member of the Lutheran faith, I can most certainly attest to Luther's potty mouth! The pastor who I took confirmation from had told us that if he used the kind of language Luther did, he'd be thrown out the church's door.
Personally, I have strong suspicions that Luther probably had been an Aspie. You know what they say: it takes one to know one.

Luther also hated Jews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies

That was actually after he had suffered under several maladies that had taken their toll on both his body and mind. At the end of his life, Luther was highly erratic and filled with misdirected rage that he spewed on everyone from the Jews, to his theology students, to his colleagues. Fortunately, the secular rulers who worked with Luther understood this, as did his fellow theologians, and so his indefensible language against Jews was never put into action. Unfortunately, the Nazis had rediscovered Luther's Antisemitic tracts, and made the utmost use of them.
No one in the Lutheran faith defends the old man's ravings against Jews.