Protestant Reformation Puns

Are there any books that look at the Reformation from the viewpoints based above? I'm getting annoyed at books that firmly camp in one party without sincerely trying to accommodate for an alternate viewpoint.

I just finished reading a brief history book about the history of the Protestant Reformation. To understand the Reformation you first have to understand just how much the invention of the printing press a few years earlier caused it to happen. The Reformation came about in large part because for the first time Bibles were widely available and people were enthusiastically reading them.

And when they read them, the first thing many of them said was, "Hey! What the Catholic Church says about X isn't in the Bible!" Or, worse, "Hey! What the Catholic Church says about X is different than what the Bible says!" And with that, the Reformation was off to the races with reformers like Luther, Zwingli, and (later) Calvin leading the way.

But what I found interesting was that as soon as the Reformation started, the various participants said two things: First, "the Catholic church sucketh and we have the right to read and interpret the Bible for ourselves" and, second, salvation is by faith not works. But that's all they could agree on and they immediately started condemning and killing one another over their disagreements. Even those two things that they did agree upon in principle were subjects for disagreement and combat in the details.

So it proved from the very start of Protestantism that you could prove anything you wanted to prove with the Bible, insist that you were right, and condemn everyone who disagreed with you by reading the Bible a different way. The reform of the Catholic Church for the salvation and betterment of everyone was a fiasco from the very beginning. (Which is not to say that the Catholic Church had it right or should've won. It was no better founded than the warring Protestants.)

The remarkable thing to me was just how ad hoc everyone's position was, reading the Bible and taking it on face value as the inspired word of God without engaging in any real investigation or rational thought. (Zwingli said, in fact, that you know that the Bible is inspired because reading it makes you know in your heart that it's inspired!) It sounds like today.

I want to make my own version of the Protestant Reformation by creating a custom Christian faith. I know that "Protestantism" was less of one new faith and is really a term used to describe many of the branches that diverged from the Catholic Church, but I can't really recreate that. So instead I want to create one new faith that's more of a generalization of the real world movement. Mainly based in Martin Luther's original 95 theses, so probably most similar to Lutheranism . What would some accurate doctrines and tenets be? The one thing I'm sure of is the removal of head of faith.

Also, would it's relation with Catholicism be hostile, or astray. I know Catholics and Protestants were fighting a lot, but would they really be holy wars like would happen in game? And titles revoked because of it?

I'm looking for historical fiction novels set in the Protestant Reformation preferably from a blended perspective of Catholics, Protestants, low- and upper-classes. Ken Follett's A Column of Fire is a lot like what I'm hoping to find.

I'm not looking for religious texts or histories, I'd prefer a narrative account that explores the human consequences of the horrors of the wars of that time.

Hi everyone, I hope your nights are going well so far.

I was just wondering if any of you have recommendations for good catholic books on the history of the Protestant “reformation” and/or it’s so called “reformers”? It’s a period of history which has fascinated me lately, not to mention it’s theological aspect is a classic example of good versus evil. If any of you have some good book suggestions please let me know!

Ave Maria and God bless you all!

The protestant center of reformations stopped. There are some protestant places but no centers of reformations just reformed ones.

Hey guys I am a devout monk of our lord Anthony Fauci (1000 MBUH) from the People's Republic of New York but recently I've been seeing problems with this church and I fear corruption from the orange satan has infected us. Here are some ways we should reform the church of COVID. I don't want to split the church. Please don't excommunicate me from this Church.

1. I reject the papal authority of Bill Gates. While his vaccine and depopulation efforts make him devout, he is not infallible.
2. I reject the sainthood of Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, and all the other saints. While I believe they're good followers of Fauci, you can pray directly to Fauci without them.
3. I reject the worship of the not-so-virgin Kamala Harris. Nowhere in the Gospel of Fauci does it mention her veneration. She should still be respected for her laugh and protecting America from covid by letting unvaccinated migrants in.
4. I reject the concept of the purgatory of Florida. You either enter the eternal zoom call with Lord Anthony Fauci or you enter the hell Mar-a-Lago with the orange Satan Drumpf. There is no third place.
5. Justification: Once you accept Fauci as your Lord and Savior and get the phifzer baptism of 2 holy elixir vaccines, you are saved for life. You don't need to justify your entrance into the eternal zoom call with more boosters.
6. I reject the concept of indulgences with negative covid tests. These tests aren't enough to save you from Mar-a-Lago. You must be vaccinated.
7. I believe Fauci's supper of the free donuts and beer that you get after your vaccine is purely symbolic. It commemorates his suffering at the hands of racist republicans but Fauci isn't actually there when you consume the donut and beer.
8. I only accept the Gospel of Fauci. The church of COVID traditions don't matter.
9. I only believe in two sacraments: holy baptism with the holy elixir vaccine and Fauci's supper of free donuts and beers. I reject other sacraments such as bathing in hand sanitizer, the spray of the holy water of lysol, and the burning of the horse paste ivermectin. Of course the veil of 1000 masks must be kept.
10. I disagree with child baptism of the holy elixir vaccine. I think the child should be at least 3 years old before we vaccinate them. We shouldn't vaccinate fetuses or newborns.
11. The apocryphal books by Brian Stelter and Rachel Maddow and other brave and stunning journalists are useful but not canonical.

I think one of the reasons why its to difficult to reform islam is because it’s such a ”united” religion if that makes sense. Most are sunni and will follow what that entails. But in the protestant reformation countries and communities started making their own churches that reflected their societies. Take Sweden for example (country where I grew up) the religion is very ”leftist” cause all the religious leaders are leftist so you have lesbian bishops and whatnot. There are right wing churches but they dont reflect the majority of society so they dont get as much power as the ”state religion”.

I know its not perfect as a lot of mulim countries are less peogressive but some are improving like Tunisia and applying a ”saudi-style” islam eather than a local-style could hindee their progressive success.

Im on phone and it starts lagging when you write too much so ill stop here

So for those of you who don't know, Rick Steves is an American TV personality who has made a career off of traveling and encouraging people to learn the ways of others. He's most famous for the TV program "Rick Steves's Europe," which has also moved onto YouTube. In addition to giving travel advice and such, he also occasionally does some deep dives into the history of these places. One of the more famous instances of this (at least from my personal experience) was when he did a history of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. It's riddled with sweeping generalizations and flat-out historical inaccuracies, all to make Martin Luther and his movement "visionaries, who challenged the old order that had made Europe into a backwater."

However, you know what's really bad? It appears that it's become standard practice for history teachers to play his video on youtube in front of their students to teach them about the Protestant Reformation, judging by the comments and again, personal experience (my sister apparently watched it in her final year of high school for "European History" Class). So, let's delve into this nearly hour-long documentary.

So after a 1 minute and 18-second long prologue and intro, we finally get to the point. After a brief introduction, we hit our first roadblock.

>01:36 - This split [of western Christiandom] happened to a medieval world, permeated and stabilized by one all-encompassing religion. But that world was colliding, with the new ideas of the Renaissance. It was rocked by fearless explorers and adventurous thinkers.

Right, so there is one thing to unpack thus far. Firstly, Steve makes it out as if the Renaissance World was completely different from that of the Middle Ages. As someone who plays some Sid Mier's Civilization here and there, it makes sense to think that, but as an Armchair Historian, this is very misguided. The Renaissance not only started during the Middle Ages (with some historians proposing that it began as far back as the 12th century, well into the High Middle Ages) but was arguably created via the Europe of the Middle Ages. Pro-science clergymen, the correct social structure, constant division, and warring, and massive demographic growth spurred the most inventive society in human history prior to the modern west, a period that either started the renaissance or led to it. So I find it ridiculous to compare the Middle Ages and the Renaissance when