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He wasn't a lib rather he was an Anabaptist, which from what I remember from long ago vlogs was one of the cooler versions of Christianity in that they sort of occupied a critical space that Lutheranism left open as Luther went against Catholicism and yet conformed to the emerging demands of capitalism.

They believed baptism as a baby made no sense since babies can't believe anything, and that mankind should live communally as the first Christians did in order to enter heaven. They see themselves as citizens of the kingdom of God not any nation state, so they refuse things like military service, oaths, violence, espouse forgiveness etc. That being said they, like most Christians, were bad to women and apparently enforced polygamy in the Munster rebellion.

Just wanted to correct the record since I saw an annoying guy in that reddit link claiming that Anabaptists were crazy murderers wanting to establish a "theocratic dictatorship" (mf what do you think all European countries with a supposed god given royalty were?) when , according to the very wikipedia article he links, it was the armies of the aristocracy who did the killing and starving, not Anabaptists.

Also neglects to mention that a couple years before this rebellion was the Peasants' War which was a rebellion supported by radical clergy and was also destroyed by the landowners, but much larger in bloodshed.