A Lesson in Lunch Counter Conversation

Scene: Nicholas having lunch at an East Austin hippie vegetarian joint.
Players: Nicholas, Guy (a middle aged patron sitting at the food counter/bar)

Guy: What does your shirt say?
Nicholas: (looks down at shirt because there is no way he remembers what he pulled out of the closet that morning) Luther is my homeboy.
Guy: So does that mean are you super religious or sarcastic.
Nicholas: (thinks to himself...you mean ironic?) It means I am happily religious.
Nicholas proceeds to have a brief conversation with his server as he pays his lunch bill about Martin Luther being an interesting historical figure and doing some amazing writings.

There was a lull in the conversation while the server was figuring the lunch bill. This is where Nicholas should have stopped the conversation....but continued with Guy...someone who clearly frequents this lunch spot filled with hipsters.
Nicholas: (to Guy) And you, are you religious?
Guy: I'm Jewish.
Nicholas: That doesn't exclude you from being religious.
Guy: I just thought I would tell you that.
Nicholas: Ok.
Guy: (using an accusatory tone) Luther was an Anti-Semite.
Nicholas: That is one of the disappointing things about him, especially the writings toward the end of his life.
Guy: A lot of people think that sentiment started with the Nazi's but it existed in Germany for many years.

Nicholas parted ways with Guy...oh the lessons learned at the lunch counter.