Digging Through Martin Luther's Trash and Other Interesting Stuff from Around the Web
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 11:48AM 
Poor Martin Luther gets no privacy, even 500 years after he's come and gone. Archaeologists have been digging around through Luther's trash, his privy, and his basement. It will come as no surprise that they found several beer mugs, and a child's crossbow and marbles. At least, Luther had an indoor pit toilet (in the cellar) with a lid. I hope they stopped there. Click here: The Reformer's Rubbish: Archaeologists Unveil Secrets of Luther's Life - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Back in the day when I owned a retail business (a Christian bookstore @ Knott's Berry Farm), we lived in fear of so-called "shopping services." These were companies who employed people who pretended to be paying customers, but all the while were evaluating how friendly, efficient, and thorough your business was. It never failed. They always came in when it wasn't busy, I was bored, and engaged in some prank--one of which involved a spray bottle of water and a fake sneeze. I was caught red-handed. It was a good thing I was the owner and not a mere employee, or else I would have been fired. Well, now they have shopping services for churches. They show up on Sunday pretending to be visitors, and then they report back to the church about how friendly and clean the church is. Click here: The Mystery Worshipper - WSJ.com
Surveys tell us that many superstitious Americans believe in ghosts. So what about a "Christian" ghost-hunter? Well, other than the fact a Christian ghost hunter makes about as much sense as a Christian "occultist", that won't stop some people from trying to contact the dead. Click here: RNS Feature: "Christian ghost hunters seek life on the other side"
There are some people who just have a fit when they learn of an endangered species. Well, here's a species (a giant bird-eating spider) that needs to be extinct--and the sooner the better. Every last one of these critters needs killin'. Click here: Giant spider snapped eating bird in backyard near Cairns | Environment | News.com.au
Reader Comments (13)
There is a bunch of other interesting findings that may cause some rewriting of the life of Luther. I guess his home environment where he grew up was a bit more wealthy then he led others on to believe. He certainly was a fascinating character.
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the bad tempered estaurine or salt water crocodile,one of which took a poor chap whilst he was checking his cray fish pots,fortunately they are again in the North,. But snakes are spread quite evenly around the country. Here is the irony. If you kill a snake ,unless it is directly threatening human life,then people can be fined $4000.00 Australian. But a baby in my State Victoria ,can be aborted up to 24 weeks. work that out.
Obviously Frederick should have taken some of that stuff for his collection...
Good point- R.C. Sproul just informed us during the interview with Michael Horton that Frederick had close to 2 million years of purgatory out of the place for free relics built up in his inventory. I think he corrected himself and said 1.97 million years. Michael responded with a hmm- I did not know that. I love this blog site.
I'll bet that they can find a bunch of crazy stuff on all of us.
Glad to hear you pipe up again. Mike has a question about Lutherans baptism beliefs. I referred him to the WELS web site but you might want to talk with him directly- I believe he asked the question at the Issues, etc information post.