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James Joyce (famous scat fetishist) travels back in time to help Martin Luther with his constipation problem and changes the course of history in the process.

>The Lord has struck me in the behind with heavy pain; my excrements are so hard that I am forced to push them out with great force so that I'm sweating. And the more I postpone it, the harder the excrements get. Yesterday I have defecated for the first time in four days. Because of that I could not sleep all night and still have no peace. Please, pray for me!

-Martin Luther

>Today I have defecated the first time in six days, the stool was so hard, I nearly died. Now I am sitting here like a woman who has given birth: lacerated, wounded, stained with blood. Tonight I will not even have a little bit of sleep.

-Martin Luther

The Lord has struck me in the behind with heavy pain; my excrements are so hard that I am forced to push them out with great force so that I'm sweating. And the more I postpone it, the harder the excrements get. Yesterday I have defecated for the first time in four days. Because of that I could not sleep all night and still have no peace. Please, pray for me!

-Martin Luther

Holy fuck. Martin Luther was incredible. His righteous anger mixes with his sarcasm and sense of humor in a way that reminds me of Paul. No wonder people hated him. He wasn't afraid to say the truth. Are there any Catholics who are this relentless? The only one that pops into my head right now is St. John Chrysostom.
>"In other words, there are two different views of matrimony: one derives from the smart alecks and sophisticates, that is, the principal fools and blind men in the sight of God. These fellows view the state of marriage as a superfluous, presumptuous human thing that one could dispense with and do without, just as I can do without an extra jacket or coat. Then they fill the world with their foolish and blasphemous scribbling and screeching against the married state, advising all men against it, although they themselves feel — and abundantly demonstrate by their actions — that they cannot do without women, these being created specifically for marriage; instead they run after and plague themselves with whores day and night. Of this kind is that arch-fool, Johann Schmid Of Constance, that renowned whoremonger, who has written an immense book recently printed in Leipzig, against the state of matrimony."
>"He tries to talk everyone out of it but says nothing more than that there is much effort and labor connected with it, as though this were not sufficiently known throughout the world and as if this ass must first teach us what every village knows. If I were chastity herself, I could think of no greater and more unbearable shame and disgrace than to be praised by such whoremongers, and enemies of chastity. They rail against us, charging that we are enemies of chastity and promoters of marriage who prefer to see men married; and we are to consider them extremely wise, though they cannot but devote themselves to incessant fornication and though they praise chastity with their only and defame the married state." (Luther's Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 7)