Later on, during the Thirty Years' War, the disputed matters of
religious belief, which were the basic causes of the struggle, prevented
nobody from taking the side which happened to be profitable. At no other
time has the cynicism born of the opportunity to gain, loot, and brawl
flourished with more unbridled license than during the Wars of Religion,
when both sides inscribed the name of God on their banners. Bravery was
then an article of merchandise which was sold to the highest bidder.
Tilly was a Belgian, Piccolomini was an Italian, and Wallenstein met his
death at the hands of Scottish and Irish hirelings. When the battle of
Rheinfeldern was fought, the Imperial German army was commanded by the
French general, Meroy, and the French army by the German Duke Bernhard
of Weimar.
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In the Middle Age as well as the Religious War, most of Europeans fought for him who paid the best. They fought for interests and gains. Only a few staunch believers fought for their religion. However, in the Middle Ages, the sham virtue had not yet been invented. In the Religious War, people used the name of God to justify their own petty interests.
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