To kill a peasant is not murder; it is helping to extinguish the conflagration. Let there be no half measures! Crush them! Cut their throats! Transfix them!
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"To be sure, I would not execute a Jew; I would not even allow him to be a farmer, but I would drive him out of the country."
"remember that there is nothing more poisonous, pernicious, and devilish than a rebellious man. Just as one must slay a mad dog, so, if you do not fight the rebels, they will fight you, and the whole c…"
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"God does many things that he does not disclose to us in his word; he also wills many things which he does not disclose himself as willing in his word. Thus he does not will the death of a sinner, acco…"
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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This is a brutal call to violently suppress rebelling peasants without mercy or restraint. The speaker frames killing them not as murder but as a civic duty, comparing the revolt to a spreading fire that must be extinguished completely. He demands total force, rejecting any compromise or moderate response, and urges authorities to slaughter, stab, and destroy the rebels thoroughly rather than negotiate.
Luther wrote this in his 1525 tract 'Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants' after the German Peasants' War erupted. Though his reforms inspired the rebels' demands for liberty, Luther depended on German princes for protection of his movement and violently repudiated the uprising. It reveals his authoritarian streak, his doctrine of obedience to secular rulers, and how he separated spiritual freedom from social or political liberation.
The 1524-1525 German Peasants' War was Europe's largest popular revolt before the French Revolution, with around 300,000 peasants demanding relief from serfdom, citing Reformation ideas. Roughly 100,000 were slaughtered by princely armies. The early modern era saw fractured authority between Catholic Church, Holy Roman Emperor, and local princes, with Luther's Reformation accelerating this upheaval while reshaping European politics, religion, and class relations.
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