I was excited to start reading about the transition from medieval country, to socially and economically modern countries. In the introduction, it states that there were major changes in education and science, as well as religion, but it seems that i may have missed the parts that did not only cover religion, if someone could point out to me where i missed those sections, it would be greatly appreciated.
I feel silly saying that had no idea what martin Luther was responsible for, it's interesting to find out that such a familiar name was actually the foundation for an entire religion. The same would go for John Calvin, i had never even begun to think of how many people it took to spread religion. And also, how religions can be so similar, but very simple little variations justify war.
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I too was enlightened by the reading. I sort of new who Luther was and that he nailed his "changes" to the front door of the church, but as to what specifically he changed, i did not know. The same goes for Calvin. It is true that many people are required to effectively change a religion (or start a new one), but in rare situations their have been religions started by just one person--take the hale-bop commet religion for example, or the extreme mormoms that were recently headlined. Just thought it would be interesting to mention these.
It is funny to see how all of my classes start blending together. In my Humanities class we briefly touched on Luther, just a week before i read the 95 these for History. I have learned so much about these mavericks of religious intelligence and advocates for human rights. They had the guts to go out on a limb and start teaching people and people noticed their intelligence and began a following. But as Kurtis stated, those determined enough can start some unfortunate religions......
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