Who will believe us when we say that we do not love these s… - Andreas Karlstadt

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Who will believe us when we say that we do not love these stuffed dummies—carved or painted images—when our deeds convict us? God hates and despises images, as I shall show. He considers them an abomination and says that all human beings are in his eyes as the things they love. Images are an abomination; it follows therefore that we too shall become abominable, if we love them.

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Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt (1486 – 1541) was a German Christian theologian during the .

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Alternative Names: Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt • Carlstadt

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