Man Martin Luther was my first role model, I guess you shield your child from certain realities until they become a bit older. I was taught in sunday school about him all the time. About his views on forgiveness (freely given, not earned) on baptism (choosing a religion must be a free choice) and so on. Then one day me and my dad are discussing Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the role of the church in Nazi Germany when I think 13 year old me still full in fanboy mode says "Man if only Martin Luther had been alive to see what became of the church he founded, he'd have put a stop to this". The moment my dad looked at me with sad pity and started off with this "Well.." was just brutal. Like full on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLicO0CRvk .

Good wake up call though, if someone as learned and critical of his own belief as Martin Luther could succumb to what is in my view such an obvious sin, then what kind of brainworms might be lurking in my mind??