>most protestants think of the Reformation as some kind of people's revolution
>it was literally kings and princes transforming the Church into another arm of the State
>governments force converting their catholic populations
>Luther even said nobles had the divine right to put down rebelling peasents
It was a mixture of both.
It appealed to Kings because land, and to peasants as it stopped them having to do humiliating shit with their faith, like paying indulgences for sins.
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State and church played a game of power, church lost. Go cry to a priest or something and maybe he'll let you suck on his cock.
>mfw catholicucks are still this butthurt after all these centuries