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Carlos Martínez García: And why Luther?

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to authoritarian cultural inertia it is fruitful in reproducing stigmas. Continuously and from different political perspectives, conservative or progressive, they make use of the counter-reformist saying the Church in the hands of Luther. With the use of the phrase, those who resort to it, intend to warn that something good is under the control of a rapacious and dangerous character.

At some point I wanted to follow up in the written press on the use of the expression the Church in the hands of Luther. The intention was to show how in the continuously published journalistic opinion, the columnists, from the left or from the right, echoed the pejorative sense of the statement. In the search exercise I found that the phrase came up with unusual frequency, I saved the findings and the folder became a part of the earrings file.

I consider the appointment by the President of Clara Luz Flores Carrales as executive secretary of the National Public Security System to be a mistake. And what role does Martin Luther play in this? Well, Verónica Malo Guzmán did not find another simile ad hoc to compare the choice of politics that has developed his career in Nuevo León with the deed of the German reformer in the sixteenth century against the ecclesiastical power of the Roman papacy (https://www.sdpnoticias.com/opinion/clara-luz-flores-la-iglesia-en-manos-de-lutero/). By making use of Luther as the incarnation of evil, the columnist denotes her sympathy for the establishment against which the theologian and former Augustinian monk rebelled.

The appointment of Clara Luz does not seem right to me at all. She is known for her militancy in NXIVM, an organization led by Keith Raniere, sentenced in the United States to 120 years in prison for, among other crimes, turning women into sexual slaves. Flores Carrales was a candidate for the government of Nuevo León under the banner of Morena, where she found shelter after having been a PRI member for 22 years. In the campaign for the governorship of New York, Clara Luz said she had taken one of the courses taught by NXIVM, she denied being close to Raniere. She even when questioned by Julio Hernández López (Shipyard), without blushing, she replied: I don’t know what NXIVM you are talking about. I took a self-improvement course, I was not in NXIVM.

When the video that shows her in 2016 talking to Raniere, who enlightened her about populist politicians and she was enthralled by her leader’s words, was made public, Clara Luz had no choice but to apologize for the mistake committed and diminish his role of participation in the group that worshiped Raniere. The interview and the video were added to other existing factors in the disastrous campaign of Morena’s candidate for the government of Nuevo León so that she was relegated to fourth place, with 14 percent of the votes.

It is worth mentioning that, in her writing about Clara Luz and Luther, Verónica Malo Guzmán ignores the interview with Astillero, an event that marked a pronounced debacle in the campaign of the Morenista candidate. She does not even mention it, when it was he, with the good journalistic nose that characterizes him, who revealed the open lies of the person in charge of the National Public Security System.

As was written before, there are many who have resorted to the phrase in their analyzes the Church in the hands of Luther to exemplify the danger of putting something of great value in the care of a predator. In this sense, Verónica Malo Guzmán is one more link in the extensive chain that uses Luther as a synonym for consummate rapacity. Why did the aforementioned columnist put herself in the same vein as the counter-reformation reaction that stigmatized Luther and represented him as the major heresiarch, the incarnation of Lucifer? In the case of Mexico, the historian Alicia Mayer has eruditely shown the image built during the three centuries of the Colony ( Luther in Paradise. New Spain in the mirror of the German reformer, UNAM-Fund of Economic Culture). The Colony no longer exists, but the colonial mentality is still alive in many places.

Luther was a man of great lights, he also had dark areas. However, his decision to confront the corruption of the ecclesiastical system of his time opened libertarian paths and, among other achievements, promoted the democratization of reading and the creation of an educational system praised by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano. The huge liberal considered Luther the great educational reformer in Germany. He not only affirms the above, but quotes the theologian and his opinion about the importance of teachers in society. What if instead of the Church in the hands of Luther we better refer to the appointment of Clara Luz as security and freedom of thought in the hands of the Inquisition?

PS I wanted to respond to the author in the medium in which she writes. Due to digital inexperience I couldn’t find how to do it. That’s why I do it here the dayand I appreciate your generosity over the years.

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