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Originally Posted by crich70
Of course both Martin Luther and William Shakespeare were the product of the times in which they lived as well. Back in Luther's day for example there was still the inquisition that still held a good amount of power and there was a general mindset I imagine of the Jew being the infidel etc.
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Being a "product of the times" doesn't absolve one of guilt. Failing to recognize the evil of the Inquisition because one was its contemporary is no more excusable than civilian Germans furthering the Holocaust, American slave ownership, the racial segregation that followed, or ways that people continue to justify racism, misogyny and homophobia now.