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German archeologists claim they found Martin Luther's loo

Posted 10.26.2004 by Turd Hugegrunt
German archeologists say they have discovered the toilet on which Martin Luther is alleged to have written the 95 Theses -- the document that launched the Protestant Reformation.

While Luther frequently alluded to the fact that he suffered on the toilet, there is some debate over exactly where Luther's religious insight took place.

Religious scholars have long been interested in a somewhat cryptic remark in one of Luther's personal recollections, in which he wrote of being granted his theological illumination in a room identified by the Latin abbreviation cl. One interpretation renders the abbreviation as cloaca, a Latin term for "latrine" or "privy," and lends credence to the theory that Luther achieved spiritual enlightenment at the same time as he attempted to unload the consequence of his accursed constipation.

While the theory may be poo-pooed by his devout followers, Luther himself scribed a link between Satanic temptation and toilets. In a work dating from Christmas 1531, Luther quotes a popular poem concerning a monk caught by the devil while reading his prayers on the potty:

Devil: Monk on the latrine! You shouldn't be reading matins here!

Monk: I am purging my bowels
While worshiping almighty God.
You can have what goes down
While God gets what goes up.

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Anonymous Coward -- 10.26.2004

I could see it happening, though it's never happened to me. Just get one of those bung-ripping logs and you sort of go into shock. With your brain in a semi-conscious state you draw on those things in your subconscious that you don't normally acknowledge. This would have explained his enlightenment.

Anonymous Coward -- 10.26.2004

I could see it happening, though it's never happened to me. Just get one of those bung-ripping logs and you sort of go into shock. With your brain in a semi-conscious state you draw on those things in your subconscious that you don't normally acknowledge. This would have explained his enlightenment.

Anonymous Coward -- 10.26.2004

Awesome reporting.

I need a toilet like this to have my own ephinanies.

Dave wrote a great thing on the toilet in the Journals of Ass Production. I think that's cool!!

Anonymous Coward -- 10.26.2004

Awesome reporting.

I need a toilet like this to have my own ephinanies.

Dave wrote a great thing on the toilet in the Journals of Ass Production. I think that's cool!!

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