One might put it this way:
Liberalism is the late globalization of one of the Reformation's ultimate results, the separation of church and state in the West. It is a separation Luther would not have welcomed, a milestone on the way to the disintegration of the West, even before it had really been more fully integrated into a coherent civilization.
Luther stands at the opposite end, that of disintegration, from that other, Jewish, fanatic, Paul of Tarsus, the great integrator of gentiles into what became no longer Jewry, Christianity.
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