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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