Martin Luther's War: The Peasants War Of 1525

In the mid-1520s, the Peasants ' War in southern Germany rattled both the political and social foundations of central Europe. The German Peasants War was the largest peasant insurrection to take place in European history as well as the most monumental rebellion prior to the French Revolution. There is a key to determining the ties between the Christianity, rebellion, and violence in the Peasants War of 1525. It is to examine the relationship of Martin Luther 's revolt against the papal church and the political and social uprising that took place during the onset of the Reformation, which inevitably lead to the German Peasants War. In the year of 1517, Martin Luther set fire to an evangelical reform movement upon the posting of his Ninety-Five Theses. Luther 's Ninety-five theses aggressively attacked the Catholic Church, which included the papacy and the pope. Luther referred the papacy as the "whore of Babylon" and the pope as the …show more content…
Upon the reformers decision to take sides with the Church of Rome, creditability was given to the slaughter of individuals captured at the end of the peasant 's rebellion. While was stated that the original reasoning 's behind the peasants ' rebellion was social and economical, it was religious ideas, which were responsible for supporting their arguments. It was the preachers who encouraged their ongoing resistance. While religion was not the basis for the peasant 's arguments, it was used in support of them. It is an on going debate as to wether or not reformers such as Martin Luther’s ideals and rhetoric that were espoused should be to blame for the peasants uprising. Personally, I believe that Luther was not the cause. The cause was the peasants misunderstandings of his messages and the alteration they applied to them in order for their undesired circumstances to seem wrong in the eyes of