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Going further back, the Protestant Reformation was enabled by the spread of the printing press. In its wake, the 30 Years War. Upon utter exhaustion of the part
by alquemist 6y ago
Going further back, the Protestant Reformation was enabled by the spread of the printing press. In its wake, the 30 Years War. Upon utter exhaustion of the parties involved, the Peace of Westphalia set the stage for the modern nation states.
- claudeganon 6y agoAnd an often passed over part of the Protestant Reformation is that it was fueled by rabid anti-Semitism and scapegoating. Martin Luther wrote a 65,000 word treatise called “On the Jews and their Lies” that’s widely considered to have been the basis for Nazi ideology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemiti...
- ficklepickle 6y agoI don't know why this is down voted, the link describes his later antisemitism in detail. Rabid is an apt descriptor.