Luther and the Bolsheviks - Power can’t avert its day of reckoning

History, or at least one version of it, suggests that tomorrow week— October 31— we should remember that date as the 500th anniversary of the day Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany.

Luther made this protest as the Catholic Church had forgotten its founding idealism and usurped it with a naked commercialism epitomised by the sale of indulgences.

These recover-your-purity auctions celebrated the lucrative dogma that freedom from God’s punishment for sin could be bought.