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> The printing press democratized knowledge That's true, but it also allowed protestant "heretics" to propagate an idea that caused a permanent schism with the
by vosper 3y ago
> The printing press democratized knowledge
That's true, but it also allowed protestant "heretics" to propagate an idea that caused a permanent schism with the Catholic church, which led to centuries of wars that killed who-knows-how-many people, up to recent times with Northern Ireland.
(Or something like that, my history's fuzzy, but I think that's generally right?)
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- b112 3y agoI thought it was a king wanting a divorce, and as he couldn't get it from the catholic church, created his own.
- mmcdermott 3y agoHenry VIII created the Church of England in 1534 for the purposes of granting himself an annulment. Most histories count Martin Luther's 95 Theses as beginning of the Reformation in 1517 (a crisp date for a less-than-crisp event; Luther did not originally see himself as protesting the Roman Catholic Church). The Protestant Reformation was a heterogeneous movement from the beginning.
- TRiG_Ireland 3y agoNot really, no. It was Luther who kick-started Protestantism. Henry VIII attempted to supplant the Pope, and kind of slid into Protestantism by accident.
- vladms 3y agoThat was the case just for the anglican church, which is only one "part" of the reformation.
- verve_rat 3y agoProtestantism started in Germany with Martin Luther nailing his theses to a church door. Henry's reproductive problems came later and where only sort of related.
- gnarbarian 3y agoLong before that in 1054, was the East - West Schism that split the Catholic and Orthodox churches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism