Just a few of the tamer Lutheran depictions of the Pope.

While Jon is our host here, and has the right to remove anything he deems objectionable, I’m posting these links as a look into how historically the fight took an ad hominem attack against the Papacy by Luther. However his attacks did not stop there. At first he worked with other Protestant reformers, then changed his mind. He retracted his statements that everyone should read the Bible, and changed it to everyone should interpret it in the same way he did. He started out by being very friendly to jews, then later declared that Jews should be expelled and restricted from most trades, having nowhere to lay their heads.

Pope with the ears of a Jackass, being crowned by a devil, being eaten by hell.
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Seven headed “Papal Animal” (Note title, Regnum Diaboli, or Kingdom of the Devil)
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Protestant Lord’s Supper, Pope decending into hell
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