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LOL. The Protestant princes were "liberated" from obedience to the Church but the people had to bow and scrape before the new absolutist power of government. Previously, there had been a balance of power between the "lords temporal and religious." Subsequently, the people were on their own with no authoritative religious leaders to protect them. The Church had kept one third of the land in Europe as living space for peasants and monks. The newly "liberated" princes seized these properties for themselves and booted off the inhabitants. Luther bitterly lamented this result in his later years.

This is all a joke right? LOL The only ones they needed protection from was Rome ...

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This is all a joke right? LOL The only ones they needed protection from was Rome ...

Are you saying that secular government never abuses power? Are you denying that the Church greatly limitted the power of secular princes over the people? Any prince or merchant that tried to impose the immorality so common in our present system was severely chastised by the Church. You weep over this "oppression?"