Title: Why did Martin Luther go against the peasants in 1525 | History Forum
Headings: Why did Martin Luther go against the peasants in 1525
Why did Martin Luther go against the peasants in 1525
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Content: The princes understood a reformed church as one that still upheld their authority, and also allowed them to access the wealth of the Catholic Church through confiscation. Luther was an educated person, and he had a low opinion of the peasants: " The people live like animals." So Luther understood on "which side his bread was buttered." The peasants to him were little more than they were to the princes. Click to expand...
Yet he risked his career and life to bring them the word of God as he saw it? gaius valerius
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Apr 19, 2011
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Jake10 said: The Peasant War was something that Martin Luther was expected to support, yet he did the opposite. Why? Considering the conditions of hard labor and little in return that the peasants were facing, their actions were justified.