At the time the Catholic church did not tolerate dissent. Anywhere they were not in the majority, or the only legal church, they had basically lost.
Luther was also agast at the desecration of churches that followed the Catholics getting das boot. He really wanted a kinda reformed Catholicism from what I can see. Which as a 'raised in the Lutheran church' person I can attest to, when I attended a Catholic mass I knew most of it already. It was remarkable.
Can I have a quarter now?
Pete