Minä ihan aikuisten oikeasti kyseenalaistan tuon. Tuota olen aiemminkin kuullut, mutta hieman pidän sitten outona sitä, miksi nimenomaan Lutherin kielenkäyttö oli kritiikin kohteena. Miksi Erasmus Rotterdamilainen olisi kritisoinut Lutherin rumaa kieltä, jos se olisi ollut vain aikansa tapa:
“I know some good and learned men who at first were not unwilling to read your lucubrations with a desire to know and judge them. They were finally forced to reject them because they confessed that they were infected by the many grimaces, jests, witticisms, insults and unchristian slanders with which you contaminate your doctrine, not unlike those whose occupation is to stuff capons or pheasants with garlic. And at first these things have a certain titillation and we itch to read them, but when they gradually creep into the mind, they infect the sincerity and gentleness of the heart.”
“And here you indulge in marvellous rhetorical flourishes, or rather someone else under your name, for you are not able to set forth ten words without insults.”
“You do nothing but stoop to slander, to insults, to threats, and yet you want to appear guileless and undefiled, not led by human emotions but by the Spirit of God.”
“Do you go so far as to allow no one even to open his mouth in opposition to your opinions? But still you are always challenging everyone to engage you in hand-to-hand combat.”
“It may be that you are such a man as you proclaim yourself to be, but we would be more ready to believe it if there were less arrogance in your writings, less bitterness, less trickery and craftiness.”
“As for me, Luther, I have enough faith in Holy Scripture and the decisions of the church to hope for my salvation from the mercy of God, even without any help from your faith. In the future, therefore, do not claim what belongs to God, do not make pronouncements about a person’s spirit, but rather examine your own spirit carefully lest it should turn out you have a rider different from the one you proclaim you have.”