But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.
James 2:18 slaps tremendous ass. I'm going to have to keep that one on speed dial.
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Holy shit the whole passage is a banger.
James 2:6-7
6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? 7 Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?
James 2:15-17
15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
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Theory, without practice, is dead.
There's a reason Martin Luther is number three on my list of 'time travel assassinaition targets'
I kinda think it's more the printing press that did it than anything. If not him, at some point some other monk or theologian or whatever would have ended up airing their grievances via pamphlet and bam, ever-so-slightly- different-protestantism.
I largely subscribe to Patrick Wyman's theory that Luther was an indispensable element between the interactions of a latent reformist tendency and the printing press
Luther's decision to write in colloquial German, his doubling down at any challenge, his genuine skill at fiery rhetoric and sense of popular humor, his protection by the Prince-elector of Saxony, these are just too contingent and situational for us to make a claim of a locked-in historical outcome
The Printing Press absolutely made Luther, but he gave the reformation it's absolutist and totalizing nature and while a religious rupture in early modern Europe was inevitable, the shape, scale and nature it took definitely was not
We can compare Protestant to Old Believers in Russian Orthodox Church, who shared a lot of similarities, but lost (and remaining Old Believers were later at the same time pro-capitalist and pro-Bolshevik).
It's still ultimately true that any dominant religious ideology is going to be downstream of the interests of the ruling class, and the bourgeoisie were always going to overtake feudalism. Perhaps we would have gotten Catholic Work Ethic ideology instead or something, but regardless I don't think it's right to think he's meaningfully responsible for pro-capitalist ideology proliferating, it was the class struggle of the bourgeoisie that did that.
What did he do? Genuine question
Edit: just saw your other comment
He's the first dominoe that triggered the European Wars of Religion and birthed the disastrous proto-capitalist ideologies of the various early protestant sects, which form the social bedrock of many pro-capitalist ideologies later down the line
John Calvin has a lot to answer for
All my homies hate John Calvin
It's not like Catholicism was any good. Orthodoxy was dead in western and central Europe at that time.
Catholicism has all of about two decades working positively to its credit. But it has tended to play both sides of the colonial struggle, and so to many it is understandably a key piece of their liberationary understanding.
and birthed the disastrous proto-capitalist ideologies of the various early protestant sects, which form the social bedrock of many pro-capitalist ideologies later down the line
Yes, but also many early Protestants were proto-socialists as well. The Anabaptist rebellions come to mind, as do the Diggers, who were explicitly reacting to the enclosure of the Commons by bourgeois Protestants in England
Zohran killed ~~Rosa Luxemburg~~ Thomas Muntzer
I can't begin to understand this bit but I respect it. 
its not a "bit" , Thumby is a prosperous trading town.
I'm currently trying the ratfuck the pope in EU5 so I won't contest that. Any HRE town beats Rome.
Is this a game? A render in blender? It looks really cool!
its called "going medival"
you start with 3 people and build a Castle with them , from time to time you get attacked. i fully recomend it.
That's his house and his hood.
He has no idea what he just stepped in
islamo-papist-communist plot confirmed
Protestants shit their pants at the mention that simply believing in Jesus and all that isn't enough to actually make them go to heaven or whatever and that they actually have to be good people and help others lmao it'll never not be funny to me.
Was anyone else confused by the perspective in the image and thought he was looking at some kind of robot thing that was on stage with him?
I thought I was just high.
Which i am.
As Dr. Janega said on the most recent Trashfuture, Martin Luther has a lot to answer for
Anti Pauline heresy
was trying to remember where i heard this before,
either harper o connor
or
roderic day
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
yes! hahaha yes! 