Benefits Of The Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation was an economic phenomenon it benefited the upper classes more economically speaking than the lower class which Luther, would scorn to encourage lay rulers to separate from the Catholic Church. Luther needed to have friends in high places if he was to challenge the papacy the way he did. So he wrote poorly about peasants, like when he wrote Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants. Luther wrote that rulers "... will smite and punish these peasants without offering to submit the case to judgment. For he is within his rights, since peasants are not contending any longer for the Gospel, but have faithless, prejudiced, disobedient, rebellious murderers, robbers, and blasphemers...". The Protestant Reformation