>translates the bible >people read it for the first time >everyone immediately turns against the Catholic ChurchMakes you think.
Curious how Jesus never said to obsess over the bible, but explicitely told Peter to make a church and carry the message. Jews themselves mostly live by the Talmud (which was the oral tradition and din't get written down untule fairly recently).If you equate christianity with the Bible you have a fairly retarded view of religiom
>>18452828>Be German, English, Swedish, Dutch>Become Protestant>"Hurray, we have vanquished the Whore of Babylon!">500 years later>"Look, xir, I don't know if you know who I am, but Abdul will marry my daughter-son, and we are a proud atheist family!"
>>18452850Correlation does not imply causation
>>18452846And where did you get all of that info? The Bible.
>>18452852The relationship between the Reformation and atheism is very obvious. You shattered Christendom into a thousand pieces, and then spat on the scriptures once it no longer served your needs.
>translates the Bible>gives 0 instructions on how to interpret it>10,000 Christian denominations spawnI'm an atheist btw but if God was real and he isn't an evil fuck or a gay hippie New Age force or nature, Catholicism would be the correct answer given the existence of the Christian God.
>>18452855Again, correlation does not equal causation.Protestant countries were extremely anti secular until very recently. This is a fact.
>>18452828They also eventually become atheist.
>>18452860I let go of a ball and it fell to the ground. I can say gravity caused it, or alternatively I could say it's just a correlation and ignore the facts. Face it, unlike the Americans who held onto their Protestant traditions to have a sense of communities, Protestantism in Europe was a rebellion against Christendom, and now God is punishing them for their sinfulness.
>>18452853The Church existed before the gospels
>>18452864>complex societal dynamics are a balla that falls to the ground
>>18452866Yeah, that's how the world tends to work, there are causes and effects. Catholic countries have the internet, went through the Industrial Revolution, have secular democracies, and somehow the main distinction is that the Protestant ones are all now atheist nightmares.
>>18452864>seethes at Europe out of no whereRent free.
>>18452868Are you stupid or what? Catholic countries are some of the most backwards shitholes on the planet, even in Europe. Not to mention the most degenerate. And again I repeat, Protestant countries were extremely anti secular until very recently. FACT
>>18452870>Material prosperity determines the truth of a religionKek! There's your true lack of faith in God showing. I guess the Roman pagans were in the right up until modernity.
>>18452850Little did they know, they were actually the clay part of the feet.
>>18452873based. we should all convert to judaism since the jews are rich and powerful
>>18452869A European whose country isn't connected to the Mediterranean is always "off" in some way.
>>18452857>and he isn't an evil fuck or a gay hippie New Age forceAnd that's how the gnostic heretics are still in the running for the one trve chvrch against the catholics despite their centuries-long near-total absence from the scene of Christendom.
Scripture itself is not in favor of the chaos that results from a million independent interpretations.>Do you understand what you are reading? Philip asked.>And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
>>18452828Heresy wasn't exactly novel at that point and Northern Germany specifically was full of free minded Christians even before he made his legendary shitpost.The difference was that he had a lot of the nobility on his side and that the crusader movement was truly dead.
>>18452873Reminder that catholic countries have some of the highest rates of prostitution in the world
>>18452916Reminder that Protestant chicks do it for free
>>18452886>Scripture itself is not in favor of the chaos that results from a million independent interpretations.Is this before or after oceans of ink were spilled over whether the filioque is essentially calling the holy spirit a worthless bitch or not
>>18452850Given how high the nafri male/spanish female marriage stats are for spain I don't think that's the argument you think it is
>>18452857maybe the burden of interpretation should go to a single trustworthy guy reading the scripture from a hat
>implying protestantism came out of a vacuum and not out of 800 years of papal development as the pope became a literal head of state and the whole Avignon Papacy/Papal Schism debacle wasn't the death knell of a stable Western Church
>>18452857>>10,000 Christian denominations spawnthe consequences of which have been a disaster
>>18452855Catholic France is more irreligious than the majority of Protestant countries on your own map papist.
>>18453323senor the french are spiritually protestant seeennnoooorrrr
>>18452828pic related is a black man
>>18452850France is the blackest country in Europe
Bibles were translated into regional languages before this satan worshipper
>>18452855The most atheist country in your image became organically protestant and was then forced back into catholicism by the Habsburgs. Mass secularization ensued.
>>18453088Ngl heterodox groups were already emerging before the western schism. The Church was undergoing turbulence long before the pope moved to Avignon.
>>18453378Those bibles were all wrong about trinity and entomodulia controversyso it doesn't count.
Now imagine if they were Muslim
>>18452865The bible is the word of God, for the people of God
>>18453477Who assembled the Bible?
>>18453407Show me
>>18452865>The Church existed before the gospelsBy “church” are you referring to the dozens of different communities that held similar, but materially different beliefs until the proto-orthodox church came decades later to systematize and establish core beliefs?
>>18452857The 'lics come across as a heretics from all their gaudy shit alone
>>18452864> America has preserved it's community
Isn't it strange how, at one point or the other. All papist states came crawling and begging for protestant aid? From Europe to the America's, papists have proven incapable of handling their own affairs, regularly requiring guidance from their protestant betters.
>>18452855>The relationship between the Reformation and atheism is very obvious>Also France and Italy aren’t real just ignore them
>>18452886>Scripture itself is not in favor of […] independent interpretations>source: my independent interpretation of scripture
>>18453818>>18453824Papist arguments are not designed to be truthful but only to support popery.
>>18452852There isn’t even a correlation, secularism is even more rampant in historically Romanist countries (e.g. Italy) and the most Christian countries today are either historically Protestant (USA) or increasingly Protestant (LatAm). There is literally no logical connection between Protestantism and secularism, the entire premise of the argument is that because secularism arose posterior in time to the Reformation it must therefore have been responsible. The same logic will prove Martin Luther to be personally responsible whenever you stub your toe.
