ABSTRACT
Martin Luther wrote with fire when he condemned the peasant uprising (in the 1520s) in his “Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants.” He described them as “raging like mad dogs. . . . The peasants have taken upon themselves the burden of three terrible sins against God and man; by this they have abundantly merited death in body and soul.”2 According to Luther, they sinned by defying their rulers, starting violent rebellions, and pretending to be Christians.
