Hello everybody and welcome back to another edition of GHH! I'll be your host, Mr. Nations, your tour guide to this massive world we all call home! In today's edition of GHH, we'll be taking a look at the Protestant Reformation, a reform that would eventually form a new religion. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's dive straight into it!
The Reformation was a split in the Latin Christian church started by a man named Luther in 1517 and evolved over the next decade, becoming a campaign that created and introduced a new sub-religion of Christianity called "Protestantism." This split has never been corrected and most likely never will. The Protestant way of thinking was not just a carbon clone of Christianity, it meant new ideas and beliefs that would solidify itself as a wildly different religion that we recognize as its own.
In 1517, Luther, a professor of theology grew angry at the sale of indulgences and produced 95 theses against them. He privately sent them to friends and opponents and as legend has it, had them nailed them to a church door. These theses were soon published and the Dominicans, who sold many indulgences, called for punishments against Luther.
Despite the wishes and actions of some old church governments and the pope, Protestantism established itself permanently in Europe. People were affected at both a personal, and spiritual level, finding a new faith as an entirely new layer of the division was added to the already divisive society. The consequences and troubles of the Reformation remain to this day.
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