The Untold Truth Of Martin Luther

There is an art to really insulting someone; to make words actually hurt to the point that it alters their mood or, if you dug deep enough, their mental state. Given millennia of evolving languages, those insults have had to get more elaborate over the years. Calling someone "idiot" just doesn't cut it anymore. Martin Luther, however, does cut it, and he cuts it about as hard as a katana fresh off the whetstone of a century-old sword-master.

Luther's snapping tongue has such a reputation that there's even the online Luther Insulter, which randomly generates an insult said by Luther himself, should you feel the need to be insulted. Some of his highlights include, "Are you ignorant of what it means to be ignorant?" "We despise your whorish impudence," and "You're a gross, ungrateful clod, worthy of being numbered among the beasts."

One might not think of a religious man as someone keen on tongue lashings, but clearly, Martin Luther defied the Catholic Church in more ways than one. (Slate also highlights just how delicious the insult generator is, showing off some of the best of the reformer themselves.)

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