And the Reformation got started how?
Wanted to give a shout out to the article in the link.
The Reformation is a term used to describe a complex and lengthy period of history.
There are a few pivotal moments and the article describes one of them. It also draws attention to a modern day organization using the specific year in their name.
The Reformation is a term used to describe a complex and lengthy period of history.
There are a few pivotal moments and the article describes one of them. It also draws attention to a modern day organization using the specific year in their name.
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A modern day political analogy: Someone pointed out to me the other day that the opposition in Venezuela is just as Socialist as Maduro. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
The salient point in the article for me is:
"Martin Luther did challenge the incumbent system. He challenged it at its very fundamentals, and to its very core. He felt that the practice of selling indulgences was contrary to the basic precepts of Christianity: that individual merit was to be found in faith in Jesus Christ"
If there can be an appeal to basic precepts and those basic precepts contain individual merit, then there is hope.
- Martin Luther was a nasty piece of work. He condemned, correctly, one set of superstitious harmful nonsense and set up a new set - same same.
'The Reformation - a major event on the path to the open society we enjoy in the West today.' No. Martin Luther was a hateful bigot of the worst kind. Both his religion and the one he attacked fought tooth-and-nail against ideas on the worth and rights of the individual human.