Luther's rebellion against the Apostolic Faith turns 500 years old, and yet some Catholics actually consider his "reforms" to be a cause of admiration and celebration.  Instead of theological alarms, lets just do some myth-busting of bad European history.  Let's consider the truths of German history, both medieval and 20th century. The First Myth to be busted is that Martin Luther was a gentle, reforming monk.  The truth is that by any modern standards, he was a sociopath.  Like Hitler, Luther chose to incite violence by declaring that "Jews and Papists are ungodly wretches.  They are two stockings made of one piece of cloth."  He once wrote a book called The Jews and Their Lies (seen below) in which he stated that because God struck the Jews, "We are at fault in not slaying them." Later, his invective became even more violent against [...]