Therefore, dear Lords, help here, save here, release here, stab, smite, strangle here, whoever can. And if you die in it, blessed are you; for you die in obedience to God's Word and command (Rom. 13) and in the service of love, to save your neighbor from hell and devil's fire.
— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants

Date / Period

1525

Category

Shocking

Source

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/luther-peasants.asp

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Unverifiable

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