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Dear Honourable Judge - creative writing letter from Martin Luther
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Dear Honourable Judge, I am Dr Martin Luther and I am appealing to you, to seek a redress against the claims and charges that are pressed against me. I am here to refute the slanders of those who, either incited by princes or others, fictitiously accusing me of destroying the dignity of the Bishops, or that, inflamed by private lust, that I broke the bonds of Monastic servitude1. I had been accused of the fact that the very reason for my defiance of the Pope came as a result of my irascible father with whom I had created an image of God in2. Such an accusation is utterly ridiculous! For despite my father's extreme disapproval, he showed his generosity and wealth by presenting a present of twenty gulden during the celebration of my first Mass as an ordained priest in the chapel of the Augustinian cloister at Erfurt3. My childhood experience...
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