Hmm. Do 'new atheists' generally think Protestantism is so much better than Catholicism? I'm not sure they do.https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/923144447717789696 …
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Certainly, they've been the ones to argue with me when I talk about the ways the emerging Protestantism was more authoritarian & forbidding.
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I agree that the New Atheists are/were liberal in the old sense. Believed in the Enlightenment, scientific revolution & progress. As do I.
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But I don't think they generally buy into the idea that Christianity was morally &factually reformed by the changes wrought by Protestantism
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4/ Of course, ppl have also argued that the Reformation's literalists paved way for fascism.
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3/ In triggering The Enlightenment and the beginning of the modern world.
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2/ Helped spread individualism, created a schism that helped spread nationalism in the stead of religious identification, & was a factor
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1/I certainly think one can make a case for the Protestant reformation, emphasis on individual relationship w god, vernacular scripture
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