Martin Luther’s toilet talk
The Protestant hero rose to fame with vulgar humor
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6 min readJun 16, 2020
I’m learning about Martin Luther, the Christian hero who launched the Reformation with filthy comedy and torrents of toilet talk.
He’d say the Catholic Pope doesn’t teach; he “farts out of his stinking belly.” Ever a comedian, Martin Luther called Pope Paul III “pope fart-ass,” or “Her Sodomitical Hellishness Pope Paula.”