not the decision for genocide. Luther warned, even in his severest recommendations, ‘you must not harm their persons.’ ”50 Carter Lindberg in his article on Martin Luther in a collection of essays on significant figures in history that have been accused of anti-Semitism, Tainted Greatness, makes the point that Luther’s writings against Jews should be rejected because at their heart they reject Luther’s own core theological commitments and “embraced the messianic pretensions of a theology