> how strongly common people care about what seem to me to be hair-splitting religious arguments it wasn't hair splitting. The Reformation coincides with natio

> how strongly common people care about what seem to me to be hair-splitting religious arguments it wasn't hair splitting. The Reformation coincides with nation-forming (and is driven by it). So instead of loyalty to the remote Pope, you get loyalty to your nation. The Bible and service. etc in your language and so forth. Classic tribalism of "us" vs "them" which kings and others at the top happily exploited. The Reformation v0.1 - Jan Huss - was kicking out Germans and others out of Prague University on the basis of it being Bohemian (i.e. Czech) institution. >To be it’s unfathomable that people who struggle to put food on the table will take up arms in the name of quite abstruse arguments. It has been shown many times that those people are the easiest to be fired up for some ideological cause. As the bolshevicks were saying "proletariat has nothing to lose, but their chains"