[wideawake]

The petty nobility needed an excuse to steal valuable land from monks and freeholders, and Luther, Zwingli, etc. provided them with a religious pretext for it.

That's what caused the so-called "Reformation."

[MamaB]

The so called nobility were church officials who had gotten involved in politics. Luther was a great man who did what he had to do at the time.

[editor-surveyor]

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Wide world of circus!