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Sunday, July 14, 2019

FAKE NEWS AND THE REFORMATION

The present MASS MEDIA today is believed to be partisan and controlled by a so called Elite Group of influential People, a secret brotherhood. There is no doubt that there are information today that is being aired and broadcasted that is edited to hide the truth and the real story.




We find many misinformation and conspiracies to deceive the masses. Educational institutions today had been infiltrated to spread humanistic philosophies and to eliminate the truth about human history. To erase God in our history and mind. To educate everyone that God is unreal. To kill the true knowledge of God in every part and corners of the earth. To make a generation of Godless people but embracing idols and materialism, eliminating the Bible in many schools and to brainwash the people through the mass media; films, movies, TV series, facebook, youtube, podcasts and many more. Constantine's Christianity for hundred of years has been the head of this ugly monster. Today, this powerful institution has a new face. A new style and look using her tentacles to bring back again many under her skirt believing she is the true Church. A new order in the world is now in its final development, high tech and more captivating to the human senses. The god of this world is using his old technique to deceive again many. To tikcle your weaknesses, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. (1 John 2:16)



Constanstine's Christianity Exposed.
The Protestant Reformation during the 16th century was the major revolution that spearheaded this change. The false teaching of the Roman Church in the west was exposed in the light of the Holy Scriptures.

Martin Luther.
"Luther believed the Catholic Church was corrupt, and he sought to reform it. His 95 Theses was basically a list of 95 complaints against the Catholic Church. See, Luther believed that salvation was obtained through God's grace, and not through doing the ''works'' the church demanded; he also held that the Bible—and not the church—was the ultimate religious authority.

Luther's 95 Theses weakened the authority of the Catholic Church and laid the intellectual framework for modernism as we know it. The movable type printing press, invented some 80 years earlier, allowed Luther's 95 Theses to spread like wildfire. In towns and villages all over Germany, ordinary people were reading Luther's ''radical'' charges against the church.Many people think of the Protestant Reformation as only a religious revolution. In reality, it was so much more. Yes, its beginning was religious in nature, but the Reformation progressed to transcend religion. So why is the Protestant Reformation a big deal? It was a social, political, and economic revolution in the truest sense. It laid the intellectual framework upon which the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment were built. The Protestant Reformation led to modern democracy, skepticism, capitalism, individualism, civil rights, and many of the modern values we cherish today.The Protestant Reformation impacted nearly every academic discipline, notably the social sciences like economics, philosophy, and history."1

"Martin Luther, however, translated the Bible into German, the vernacular, or the language of the common people. Now ordinary people could read the Bible for themselves. Increasingly, the Bible became interpreted in new ways. Protestant theology emphasized marriage and family, the importance of hard work done for God's glory, and the value of education. Followers of Luther and the Protestant reformers that came after him in the 16th and 17th centuries, placed a strong emphasis on literacy. As a result of the Reformation, literacy increased throughout Europe, particularly among the common people.
With literacy came a newfound sense of skepticism: No longer would the masses blindly hold to what their priests told them; literacy meant that people could discover things for themselves... and not just ''spiritual'' things. People increasingly began to take an interest in secular, academic things. Just one of those things was history."2



"Guttenburg’s revolutionary printing press was central to the spread of new protestant ideas" - https://www.historyhit.com/facts-about-the-reformation/


"The printing press (invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440) changed the world during the Renaissance, and ushered in the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, and Modern Age.
Before the Printing Press Barons, Kings, and Churches ruled Europe, and the average citizen had little in the way of rights or education. The average person was sometimes able to read and write before the printing press. It is a myth they couldn’t read; it was common to have written words scrawled on walls, paper, and even dirt before the press. The skill of writing was less common) The printing press almost immediately changed culture, science, and politics. For the first time, many people had access to not only Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy, but access to Copernicus and the other early great thinkers of the of the Renaissance. There was also access to mass-produced single page pamphlets. The proliferation of pamphlets changed politics and religion, quickly spreading new ideologies. For example, Martin Luther’s “95 Theses” which began the Protestant Reformation was one such pamphlet."3




"In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation" and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West.

Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation's protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge.

The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past."4






Footnotes:
1,2 - by Nate Sullivan, extracted from https://study.com/academy/lesson/impact-of-the-protestant-reformation-on-the-study-of-history.html
3- extracted from  http://factmyth.com/factoids/the-printing-press-changed-the-world/
4-By Brad S. Gregory - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11500294-the-unintended-reformation

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