Martin Luther claimed that the church was intentionally making the bible difficult for local people to read in their own language. The purpose of this lie was so that he could create his own "interpretation".
Luther did not believe in free will. One "fix" he added to the bible was in Romans 3:28.
“So we hold that a man is justified without the works of the law, by faith alone.”
The previously accepted translation was:
“For we hold that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.”
Stellula
11mo ago
The schism maintained the concept of a Church.
The reformation basically threw out 1500 years of philosophy in favor of "vibes" and "sola scriptura" (which is the idea that all of Christian philosophy can be derived from The Bible itself and idea which is on it's face stupid due to the fact that it was only assembled 400 years after the Church was founded).
EOs and Catholics are bros. There's a reason why you see the Ecumenical Patriarch and The Pope together so frequently.
Stellula
11mo ago
my local Unitarian church
Can I be annoying Catholic for a second? Here's the general timeline of Christianity.
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Christ upon death, entrusts Saint Peter with the formation of a church.
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This church exists for about 400 years, doing philosophical work, being murdered by romans, and assembling the gospels
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400 years into it, they start calling some councils so that they can assemble a book which encompasses and explains their theology.
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They assemble the bible
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One thousand years later, and one thousand and five hundred years after Christ establishes a Church on Earth, a retarded autist named Martin Luther decides that he doesn't like the Church that Christ founded, and wants to start his own, with his own [stupid] philosophical beliefs at the center. Marty creates a lie about bible translations so that he can insert his own idea by "translating" the bible into German.
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This effects of this are...negative. 500 years after this, we have the things you experienced.
tl;dr - you didn't go to a Church. You went to a weird narcissism cult that is wearing Church as a costume.
If you want to go to a Church, then go to a Church.
Stellula
11mo ago
credulous HR departments with no technical knowledge
This is exactly right. Just wanted to highlight the best part of your post.
The US is not an economic zone.
While the implementation is cruel (giving people out of the country essentially 24 hours to return), this had to happen.
The 2008 housing collapse could arguably be blamed on the appraisers. They were going along with the scam and giving 20% annual appreciation to houses, while the rating agencies were fudging the quality of the debt being sold. People were supposed to be watching each other, but they weren't and everybody was getting rich.
In US tech jobs, the blame lies on the HR departments. The obvious fake resumes the obvious nepotism and discrimination between Indian hires, etc.
Everybody who works in this industry has seen how this scam functions. You get one Indian in a position of power in your company, and shortly thereafter, the entire company is Indian, and the quality of work has dropped to 0. HR doesn't understand because the resumes claimed that these were all "high quality" employees with tons of certifications (fake) degrees (fake) and experience (fake).
Yes this benefited many Indians, benefitted India, and may have benefitted some American companies, but it was all at the detriment of middle class Americans.
Again, we are not an economic zone. The H1B system was blatantly abused, specifically by Indians, and now it's ending. Good.
(Although my guess is that this get's reversed over the weekend, I'm still going to enjoy the few more hours where it's real)
I'm sure anybody with time can run circles around me going toe to toe about Bible translations.
But this is kindof the difference between Catholics and Protestants. We don't worship a book, we're trying to live good, Christian lives. While Protestants will get obsessive about bible translations, Catholics get more obsessive about the meaning implied.
That all said, I think the broad strokes of the reformation and the early church are pretty obvious. Ironically, it's access to information (the internet) which will likely end Luther's work.
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