Luther Was 100% an Enlightenment Figure

Protestantism and Lutheranism were both emanations of Sophism. 

Sophism, being OG deception worship, always cloaks itself as something else. It's more than happy to try on various disguises. 

"The saying "reason is the Devil's greatest whore" was his. If we followed what Luther wanted we'd have a Christian theocracy of sorts without all the papist idolatry and corruption. Enlightenment skepticism wouldn't have developed. Married clergy weeds out all the catholic gays."
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First problem: Christianity was an emanation of Sophism in the first place. Protestantism was merely an upgrade. "Not enough Sophism. Lies more Sophism." 

Second problem: Sophism, relying heavily as it does on logical fallacies, plain works better if (futilely) attempting to use logic is high status. E.g. way easier to trick folk if they're constantly getting halfway there on their own in an attempt to one-up their neighbours.

If you go full Al-Ghazali, the parasitism networks ossify and the polity stagnates. If you ban the scholar caste entirely you don't get a population defenceless against bad scholarship, you ban the Sophists themselves. Sophism prunes its own shoots and replaces the system with one which rewards unimaginative, talentless thugs. Haha, oops. Way to blast your own foot with both barrels, Luther. Their defencelessness doesn't matter if your non-scholar rivals can ensure you don't exist...

Regardless, due to the first problem, America is very much a Christian theocracy, it merely doesn't call itself Christian so it can ignore the friction-inducing impurities in the Bible without inconvenient pests bringing them up all the time. Sophists gonna Soph. If it were instead a Lutheran theocracy it would be basically the same place except poor and thus even weaker.

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Reminder that if you're not a lying sack of shit, you don't nail your dirty laundry to your parent's door. 

If you don't like how your dad runs the place, then talk to your dad about it. His house, his rules - try to convince him your idea for the rules is better. If he won't see your side of the argument, then stapling your argument to the front door is not exactly going to make the scales fall from his eyes. "Now that you've poked holes in my lacquer, I see your point!" "I can't believe I didn't try vandalism earlier. It's always so charming."

Bro, just move out.
When Luther did move out but threw a childish tantrum in the process, he revealed he was a narcissist. Developmentally arrested. The only deeply held principle behind the stunt was, "I need narcissistic supply." The Church didn't pander enough to his grandiosity. That's the only thing he was for-real mad about.