View Full Version : Luther's reformation - how it really was
Skybird
10-31-17, 04:50 PM
:har:
.................................................. .............."Trick or treat!"
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/wirklich_ts/20525708/2-format140.jpg
by: Klaus Stuttmann, Der Tagesspiegel
propbeanie
10-31-17, 06:55 PM
"Which it really was"... I ~think~... therefore, I am - I think...
I thought maybe the Pope was saying something to Martin, but it's more of a look of shock... mouth agape...
Skybird
10-31-17, 07:13 PM
The underline is the thread title. "How it really was."
The words by the small man is given above the picture. "Trick or treat!"
Translation complete. ;)
Yesterday was holiday in Germany, Luthers reformation. Don't know to what extent it is holiday in your other countries as well.
Having read the book "Here I Stand", I do understand the cartoon. The book, a little heavy at times, was a good read, he actually called the Pope "The Antichrist", so I do understand the cartoon. Yes I am a Lutheran.:yep:
The underline is the thread title. "How it really was."
The words by the small man is given above the picture. "Trick or treat!"
Translation complete. ;)
Yesterday was holiday in Germany, Luthers reformation. Don't know to what extent it is holiday in your other countries as well.Thanks.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fqrv5r26m 8zsz.png&hash=6241c5459a22ab7ef9bcaccd8be5acd6
Germans funny? :hmmm:
I don't get it, maybe I should move to Germany to study German comedy.
One of the things that started the Reformation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence
Skybird
11-01-17, 07:40 AM
Germans funny? :hmmm:
I don't get it, maybe I should move to Germany to study German comedy.
Thats why German jokes always gets delivered with an instruction sheet: the cartoon makes the whole Protestant reformation caused by Luther (when nailing his pope-challenging thesis on that church door back then) look like being a consequence of a Halloween trick , because little Luther when he was a boy did not get some candy.
propbeanie
11-01-17, 08:04 AM
They hadn't invented "German Chocolate" yet, so there wasn't anything suitable to give him...
Jimbuna
11-01-17, 08:24 AM
Thats why German jokes always gets delivered with an instruction sheet: the cartoon makes the whole Protestant reformation caused by Luther (when nailing his pope-challenging thesis on that church door back then) look like being a consequence of a Halloween trick , because little Luther when he was a boy did not get some candy.
Way over my head I'm afraid :doh:
Skybird
11-01-17, 09:11 AM
:doh:
The reformation started by Luther hammering his thesis paper on the doors of some church in Wittenberg. It ended in a blow delivered to the pope's church and a split of the church, with Protestantism forming up and revolting against the dominance of papal Catholicism.
The cartoon now shows a young boy wearing a halloween mask, but with the hairstyle and the coat that Luther typically is being depicted with in arts and paintings. The boy holds a paper (the thesis paper) and threatens the pope: "trick or treat!"
Obviously the pope refused to give treats, so a trick was played on him, by nailing the thesis paper on the church door instead.
The historical results of this trick are known, and were monumental, kind of. A splitting of the church, it was. Only because the pope gave no candies. A triviality causing a huge outcome. That is considered to be funny, guys. FU-NNY. So will you now laugh, yes, everybody?
Whats wrong with you guys? :D I spilled my cacao almost on the table when stumbling over this cartoon, that much I had to laugh. Is Protestantism unknown outside Germany? Or where the Lutherian bible came from - nobody never heard of it, ever?
:salute: Luther, anyone?
https://www.dr.dk/images/article/2017/01/11/luther_figur_playmobil.jpg
Man, I feel like this crazy guy on the radio in Fallout 4...
Way over my head I'm afraid :doh:
German wit Jim, if it had farting and big manhoods we both would be....:har:
Reece would be....:har: :har:
It was so funny it broke my attempt to post a Polandball comic....so let's try that again.
https://i.imgur.com/kDrXFCo.png
Skybird
11-01-17, 03:06 PM
I am not sure but - is the above now meant to be funny? From a hidden Anglosaxon side maybe? I never tell a joke again, I swear it, if it leads me to solving puzzles.
Now it's our turn to confuse you with humour. :arrgh!:
I'm confused but that's normal for me!!:D
Delgard
11-02-17, 07:31 AM
So any ae afraid to make values-based decisions. Social pressures have become very powerful in American. I can't really say about other western-oriented countries so much.
I must be getting old this is all very confusing.
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