dude seems to just never let himself reason past one level of criticism and found himself even more theologically and politically confused than when he began his understanding of religion seems sub-14yo forum atheist-tierhttps://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1254626693995589632 …
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pls note I do not intend an attack on modern protestantism or a defense of the medieval church here
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I think what killed me, in Durant's summary of his theology, was Luther's dismissal of Reason and elevation of Faith juxtaposed w/ his embrace of consubstantiation because transubstantiation was JUST TOO CRAZY im all for wild inconsistency but im a shiposter not a theologian
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and of course the downstream splintering of protestantism was entirely predicable but this seems to have never occurred to him and he was Mad when it happened >"Ppl should interpret the scripture as they see fit" >"Ok I interpret it differently than you" >webcomic name panel 3
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once more I have no agenda here im working through Durant's volume on the Reformation and im just struck by how lame luther seems compared to contemporaries I guess one maybe had to be kind of a meathead to see a split with the church through like this. Like,
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say, Erasmus. I love Erasmus as portrayed. Moriae Encomium: ahhhh thats the good shit. Deeply adroit, clever, funny, self-deprecating, didnt touch off a series of wars that devastated europe for a hundred years
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but, being too smart and funny as erasmus was maybe makes one unpredisposed to just boringly beat a drum calling for revolution an iota of self-doubt, and a basically playful spirit too much hermes and socrates, not enough apollo and plato
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additional context, I was raised Catholic in a place where your religion was Catholic or Lutheran and everyone was of German or Scandinavian descent what this means practically is less "I imbibed a negative view of Luther" than my childhood was something like "Luther whomst?"
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i thought about him a bit in AP European History when I was fifteen but otherwise really haven't much attended to the Reformation and listening to a narration of it now in my mid 30s is pretty interesting
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Yeah! Audible. Will Durant, The Reformation
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