True - though remember that Luther's oft-quoted comment on this,
like some of his other more provocative ones is from his _Table Talk_.
& what a student remembers years later of what his prof said over a beer
doesn't always do full justice to the prof's fully developed ideas.
My point here, though, was to
a. not blame Luther for my own views, &
b. make a preemptive strike against those who say, "If Luther
(or Augustine, or Einstein, or whoever) were alive today he
would ..." when in fact we often don't know what position an
intelligent person would take on a modern issue he or she
had no opportunity to deal with.
George Murphy