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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
A great many things happened during this period. The reformation was one of them, but I don't see what specifically it did to make the world better.
As for the violence, yes, there is a similarity. In both cases, people are killing each other in the name of god. I still fail to see how being killed, or killing, in the name of a christian god would make me better than killing or being killed in the name of a muslim one.
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prior to the reformation the catholic church for all intents and purposes ran the western world. all authority came from god then to the church who would then give the authority to the king to rule. if the king stepped out of line the church took corrective measures. after the reformation it made it possible for countries to run themselves without church interference. there were no longer church courts, it was civil not secular law. of course a few countries were slower to respond than others.
I'm not attempting to infer that dying or killing in the name of any god is good, right, proper or any other acceptable philosophy