Our Lord Quotes
While Aquinas brought much wisdom and good to the Church, this statement and others laid a foundation for murdering non-believers and organizing the Inquisition.
This happened to be the famous Colored Regiment depicted so well in the movie, Glory. However, these sentiments were also given to other soldiers in the state. Fighting against slavery was not only the patriotic thing to do, not only the humane thing, not inly the civilized thing to do, but it was a Christian Religious duty. Similar sendiment can be seen much in speeches and literature of the time. The words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic is another example. Ending slavery was a Holy requirement of God.
In this document written in his later years, he virulently attacks the Jews in vicious and crude language. This is a very different Martin Luther than his earlier years. See {617772}
At the time, Luther was very favorable towards Jews. Later, he became disappointed. He could understand why the Jews would not accept Christ as their Savior when they had to do so according to the laws and rules of the Roman Catholic Church, but he was disappointed when after he offered the non corrupt version of Christianity, the Jews for the most part did not convert.
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
