SteveR wrote:
Lets pretend

"In the course of writing the Responsio , More developed a deep and complex commitment to Catholic repression in the interests of the peace and unity of Christendom. His attitude became biased, emotional, intransigent and at times abusive or, as Erasmus disapprovingly remarked, 'imperious'. More saw heresy as a raging disease which infected all doctrines held by the heretic and corrupted all his morals. Luther was a heretic and a pervert, according to the Responsio , a man totally evil, 'who does not allow the priests who take wives to be joined to any other than public strumpets'. More believed this prophecy fulfilled when Luther married a nun in June, 1525. Similarly, Luther's followers were criminals who 'bespatter the most holy image of Christ crucified with the most foul excrement of their bodies destined to be burned'." (by J A Guy. "History today" 1980)

SteveR wrote:
The guy was an intelligent lawyer, he kept his views to himself

The historian and religious scholar James Wood wrote that More, was not so much a man of conscience but...

…a heretic hunter of the early 16th century who broke into Lutherans’ homes and sent men to the stake. He would punish religious dissent not only with nasty words but also with state violence.