Talk:Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants

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Ingratiating Luther
An interesting deleted paragraph from the log on Luther's motivation:

While a number of peasant revolts occurred throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, none of them were successful in achieving their aims, and Luther would have known this. To support the peasants would mean throwing in his lot with a side that was doomed to fail, and Luther shrewdly backed the winning parties, guaranteeing the survival of Protestantism. In sacrificing the peasants in order to ingratiate Lutheranism among the Germanic temporal leaders, perhaps Luther was thinking of Matthew 26:11: “The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.”

Varlaam (talk) 15:17, 14 May 2012 (UTC)