If I had been a Jew and had seen such dolts and blockheads govern and teach the Christian faith, I would sooner have become a hog than a Christian. They have dealt with the Jews as if they were dogs rather than human beings; they have done little else than deride them and seize their property.
didnt he expect the jews to convert en-masse now that he'd finally discovered TRUE™ christianity? as if jews were jews just cos they didnt like the silly frocks of the catholic church...
Well there is Anglican protestantism which came before and Calvinism (where the whole "Protestant work ethic" comes from) came after Luther. The man has a lot of brainworms for sure but reforming Christianity as an individual affair between god and person and not a public affair between church and person led to the improvement of peoples lives.
But in the end he is a German philosopher so yeah massively racist.