"Since the peasants, then, have brought both God and man down upon them and are already so many times guilty of death in body and soul, since they submit to no court and wait for no verdict but only rage on, I must instruct the worldly governors how they are to act in the matter with a clear conscience."
I think this is a pivotal statement made in Luther's "Against the Robbing and Murdering
Hordes of Peasants" because it goes to show that he wasn't just making these speculations because he disagreed with the peasants reactions to the government, but rather that he found it quite necessary to approach a topic that was easily avoidable as a Christian who values both life and holy justice. Where do you draw the lines when ruler-ship is God-ordained and human free-will is also God-breathed?
I commented on Ethan's and Natalie's.
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