tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post3712206949455078654..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: "Archaeologists dig up dirt on Luther"?Schützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-11248286479634318862008-10-29T12:24:00.000+11:002008-10-29T12:24:00.000+11:00Maybe there was an old teutonic legend that whoeve...Maybe there was an old teutonic legend that whoever could pull a drawing pin out of the stone toilet would be the next king of Germany. But seriously, how can you scoff and joke about the sacred pins of Wittenberg? Everyone knows about their healing properties. One lady I knew applied the said drawing pin firmly to her kneecap and was instantly cured of her headache.<BR/>LJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-62572497046170284012008-10-28T16:19:00.000+11:002008-10-28T16:19:00.000+11:00The Irish -English writer Patrick Leigh Femor-famo...The Irish -English writer Patrick Leigh Femor-famous for kidnapping the German Commander from off Crete in the War-in his book "a TIME OF GIFTS" talks about walking into a tavern in pre war Romania,where there was a large ethnic German population and seeing written around the walls a saying by Luther to the effect that the man who has not had wine nor women is dull and boring. What amazed him even more was that the tavern keeper was a Catholic.<BR/> On a more sober note,it was these ethnic germans who were appallingly treated after the war by russian and other iron curtain countries ,even though most were just farmers and shopkeepers and had no part in the war.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com