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Luther The Shattering the head so he
M artin Luther was a student of
T h e Sh atter ed law before he becam e a friar. Born in
Cr oss 1483 Luther was educated from an
early age and went to study law at 19.
During a violent storm Luther
prom ised to St. Anne that he join a
religious institute if she delivered
him from harm . Luther survived the
storm and joined a local m onastery,
he had a deep sense of loyalty to his
new faith and was obsessed with
staying pure and so he was always
confessing, fasting, and praying.
After awhile they sent him
T he one m an revolution
away to Vatican City in hopes to get
of religion in Europe him to calm down but once there did
he really start seeing the corruption
By Ch ar lie An dr ew s in the church. Clergym en rushing
m ass, not following their oaths to the
church, and clergym en taking
advantage of their position to m ake
m oney or power.
After preaching for a while
The Catholic Church was one the biggest social Luther decided to write 95 theses
why people should sim ply have faith
Institutions of all tim e. People cannot
experience enough awe to to and didn?t
com prehend the power the church need the
had. It controlled a good chunk of church to
Europe, was paid taxes by everyone, have god?s
blessing
had its own m ilitary, and was the m ain
religion of Europe. It had power higher and m ailed
than any king could for hundreds of them to a
years bishop.
The priests and officials were Things
started to
also pretty unfaithful. They rushed
m asses, offer a type of spiritual released
cleansing for substantial fees, and copies of
could get away with just about everything. Eventually one the bible in
friar stood up to the Catholic Church and crippled it from germ an. This was the breaking point
for the Protestant Revolution.
within.
The release of the Bible in
Germ an was revolutionary because it
had never before been in any other
language than Latin which
com m oners couldn?t read. Once
Germ an com m oners started reading
the bible they started having their
own interpretations and this led to an
uprising.
The people started rebelling,
looting, and attacking churches
across Germ any and setting up their
own religions. Som e of these include
anti-baptists, lutherans, and puritans.
The Positions of the Nobility
After com m oners in Germ any
started revolting Luther then
encouraged the nobility and royal
fam ilies to slaughter the rebellion
and to take the power for them selves.
H e believed that the royalty was
placed there by god so they could
take care of his greatest creation, the
Earth. The royalty followed Luther?s
plan because it would let them get
m ore m oney and power which they
really liked.
H enry the 8th was one of the
biggest exam ples of m onarchs using
the revolution to their advantage. H e
wanted a divorce but the Pope
wouldn?t give him one so he m ade the
Church of England and put him self as
could give
him self a
divorce. After
H enry passed
away his
daughter M ary
tried to rid
England of
protestants by
killing an she
could find but
when her sister
Elizabeth took the throne she gently
tried to bring back protestant religions.
The Start of Persecution
Throughout history people have
waged war and discrim inated because of
the religion a person chooses to follow.
Even if they are good people others will
judge them on things that they usually
have no control over like where they are
from , their gender, their sexual
orientation, or their religion even if it is
a pointless thing to do. H enry the 8ths
daughter M ary for exam ple burned
people at the stake for sim ply not being
catholic even if her father the king told
his subjects to reject Catholicism before
M ary cam e to power.