(1/9) Since I have read the last few days some discussions:
I always like to remember that the #Catholic Church has damaged my country for the last 1200 years at a stretch. For me, as a #German, Martin #Luther and Lutheran #Protestantism is a piece of #liberation for my country.
I always like to remember that the #Catholic Church has damaged my country for the last 1200 years at a stretch. For me, as a #German, Martin #Luther and Lutheran #Protestantism is a piece of #liberation for my country.
(2/9) Why I don't like the Catholic Church that much in return:
I. Walk to Canossa, destruction of earliest German central state efforts
II. Beheading of Conradin, destruction of German imperial nobility
III. Delegitimization of the Teutonic Knights and their eastern settlement
I. Walk to Canossa, destruction of earliest German central state efforts
II. Beheading of Conradin, destruction of German imperial nobility
III. Delegitimization of the Teutonic Knights and their eastern settlement
(3/9)
IV. Trade in indulgences: monetary gain in northern Europe to finance the cultural flowering of Italy
V. Catholic Italianization of the southern German-speaking area, pushing back the German-speaking area from Verona to the Salurn Pass
IV. Trade in indulgences: monetary gain in northern Europe to finance the cultural flowering of Italy
V. Catholic Italianization of the southern German-speaking area, pushing back the German-speaking area from Verona to the Salurn Pass
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VI. Incitement of Alsatian Catholics against the German Empire in favor of France
VII. Systematic thwarting of military education measures in the Second German Empire
VI. Incitement of Alsatian Catholics against the German Empire in favor of France
VII. Systematic thwarting of military education measures in the Second German Empire
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VIII. Catholic lateral alliance with France and Italy in World War I → subsequent Romanization support of associated territories
IX: Catholic lateral alliance with Poles and Czechs in Eastern Europe in the interwar period
VIII. Catholic lateral alliance with France and Italy in World War I → subsequent Romanization support of associated territories
IX: Catholic lateral alliance with Poles and Czechs in Eastern Europe in the interwar period
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X. frequent support of southern Italian partisans against German-occupied Italy
(many of them were themselves communists or mafia members. In some cases, there are even personnel overlaps with later mafia killers. )
X. frequent support of southern Italian partisans against German-occupied Italy
(many of them were themselves communists or mafia members. In some cases, there are even personnel overlaps with later mafia killers. )
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XI. unopposed transfer of Eastern German dioceses to Eastern peoples
XII. no condemnation of Polish and Czech acts against local, even Catholic, Germans
XI. unopposed transfer of Eastern German dioceses to Eastern peoples
XII. no condemnation of Polish and Czech acts against local, even Catholic, Germans
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And then today you see a lot of people claiming that #Lutheran #Protestanism gave birth to modern, #global #liberalism. This is, of course, absolute nonsense.
And then today you see a lot of people claiming that #Lutheran #Protestanism gave birth to modern, #global #liberalism. This is, of course, absolute nonsense.
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Lutheran Protestantism emerged in part as a counter-movement to secularized humanism from Catholic northern Italy. Modern liberalism, which is in continuity with humanism (and later also communism), in turn came from Catholic France, by the way. But that's just by the way.
Lutheran Protestantism emerged in part as a counter-movement to secularized humanism from Catholic northern Italy. Modern liberalism, which is in continuity with humanism (and later also communism), in turn came from Catholic France, by the way. But that's just by the way.
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