In 1517, a German monk nailed a list of complaints to a church door.
It shook all of Europe.
Martin Luther wasn’t trying to divide a continent.
He wanted reform — a cleansing of corruption,
especially the selling of indulgences.
But instead, he sparked a revolution.
The Protestant Reformation shattered religious unity in Europe.
Luther translated the Bible into German —
so ordinary people could read divine words themselves.
Others followed:
John Calvin in Geneva.
Huldrych Zwingli in Zurich.
The Anabaptists, the Puritans, the Anglicans.
Faith fragmented —
and with it, political power.
Kings and princes took sides.
Wars erupted.
Peace of Augsburg.
Thirty Years’ War.
I paused while studying Luther’s writings and checked 안전한카지노.
Strangely, it felt like a mirror: a digital world divided by belief and echo chambers.
The Catholic Church responded with its own reformation.
New saints.
Jesuits.
Baroque beauty to win back hearts.
In England, Henry VIII split not for theology —
but for love and legacy.
He created a national church with royal supremacy.
Religious conflict became a defining feature of early modern Europe.
Yet the Reformation also birthed literacy.
People learned to read — so they could read scripture.
Ideas flowed faster.
Printing presses roared.
Through 카지노사이트, I shared an image of stained glass fractured by war,
captioned: “Faith, cracked but still shining.”
The Reformation reminds us:
Belief can unite.
But it can also divide.
And sometimes, to find clarity,
the world must first fall apart.