The crumbling of institutions, political radicalization, novel teaching on human sexuality! Though separated by half a millennium, our historical moment bears similarities to theirs. As if knowing he would later be seen as a predecessor of the global Left, Thomas Müntzer led the peasants into battle beneath a rainbow flag—only he meant it to symbolize the days of Noah when God destroyed the world with water and made it anew.
If history is the thing that rhymes, our moment is a paired couplet with the Reformation moment.
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