Martin Luther and the 95 Feces

Let’s talk about Martin Luther.

He was an antisemite.

He was really into encouraging the brutal repression of peasant uprisings, whether Protestant or Catholic.

And most of all, HE WAS OBSESSED WITH POOP.

Seriously. He spent his life believing he was locked in spiritual warfare with Satan, who he believed was GIVING HIM GAS AND ALSO THE SHITS. (See Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World by Jeffrey Burton Russell.)

“Devil, I have just shit in my trousers. Have you smelled it?”
—Martin Luther

“Such a great horrid fart did the papal ass let go here! He certainly pressed with great might to let out such a thunderous fart—it is a wonder that it did not tear his hole and belly apart!”
—Martin Luther

“I’m like a ripe stool and the world is like a gigantic anus, and we are about to let go of each other.”
—Martin Luther shortly before his death

“What is one to do when a religious leader refers so persistently to the anus?”
—David B. Meyer

“Lest you think that I’ve cherry-picked these selections, I refer you to an analysis of his close to four hundred letters, almost 40% of which had some sort of reference to either butts, shitting, shit, and anuses, in that order of descending popularity.”
—Ed Simon

To learn more about this doubtless FASCINATING subject, I recommend this terribly funny and erudite article by the aforementioned Ed Simon, PhD.
https://queenmobs.com/2017/12/fecal-fridays-martin-luther-toilet/

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