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To: AnalogReigns
Huh? Luther's princes battled Catholics? When?

To quote your own shtick, "what are you smoking?"

You've never heard of Luther's essay "Against the murderous and robbing rabble of Peasants"?

Luther called upon the princes to slaughter the offending peasants like mad dogs and held out as a reward the promise of heaven.

More than 1000 monasteries and castles were levelled to the ground, hundreds of villages were laid in ashes, the harvests of the nation were destroyed and 100,000 killed.

Glad I could help.

50 posted on 11/02/2012 4:24:20 PM PDT by marshmallow (.)
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To: marshmallow

The Peasants Revolt was a very dangerous things. It was similar to a mass terrorist uprising. Luther was shocked that the revolt started, and horrified at mass killings on both sides. Luther was used for political ends by all sides, yet wouldn’t activly join the Emperor or the princes.


56 posted on 11/03/2012 1:55:01 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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