But since they have deliberately and sacrilegiously abandoned their obedience, and in addition have dared to oppose their lords, they have thereby forfeited body and soul, as perfidious, perjured, lying, disobedient wretches and scoundrels are wont to do.
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"Drinking and eating are the highest pleasures."
"I am rough, boorish, stormy, and altogether warlike. I am born to fight with devils and factions, and to lay waste the kingdom of Satan."
"When I am assailed by temptation, I find it good to eat, drink, and be merry, so that I may not be alone with the devil."
"I'm like a ripe stool and the world's like a gigantic anus, and we're about to let go of each other."
"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn."
German theologian whose 95 Theses (1517) launched the Protestant Reformation and broke the Catholic Church's monopoly on Western Christianity. Closely associated with Philipp Melanchthon (Lutheran systematizer) and John Calvin (later Reformer who built on Luther's break). For an intellectual contrast, see Pope Leo X, Renaissance pope (1513-1521) — Leo X's indulgence sales triggered Luther's break and Leo excommunicated him in 1521 — Luther's entire Reformation is structured as a direct answer to the indulgence-funded Vatican Leo represented.
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People who intentionally break their sworn duty to obey authority, and then go further by actively rebelling against their rulers, lose all protection for their lives and their souls. Such oathbreakers, liars, and traitors deserve whatever punishment comes to them. The speaker frames rebellion not just as a crime but as spiritual self-destruction, placing disobedient subjects outside the bounds of mercy and casting them as fundamentally corrupt wretches who chose their own damnation.
This captures Luther's harsh stance during the 1525 German Peasants' War, when he wrote 'Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants' urging princes to slaughter rebels. Though he challenged papal authority, Luther fiercely defended secular rulers, believing God ordained temporal government. His theology separated spiritual freedom from political obedience, and he saw armed uprising as satanic rebellion that forfeited both earthly life and eternal salvation.
The early 1500s saw massive peasant uprisings across German lands, with commoners citing Reformation ideas to demand freedom from serfdom and feudal dues. Luther's break from Rome had unintentionally inspired social revolt. Princes feared total breakdown of the feudal order, while reformers scrambled to distinguish religious reform from political revolution. Roughly 100,000 peasants were killed suppressing the revolts, cementing the alliance between Lutheran churches and territorial rulers.
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