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The David McWilliams Podcast
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Is There a Link Between Catholicism and Protestantism?
When Britain set itself up as a Protestant power, it suggested there was a link between what they call the individual calling of Protestants. The Reformation is fascinating because if you go back to the home of the Reformation, Luther, right? And Luther Saxony. So no, pretty kind of average part of Germany, right? Yeah. But if you actually look at the combination of the printing press, which was basically the internet of the time, and Lutheranism, what you see is something very interesting. Cities that adopted the printing press that had their own printing press were much more likely to convert to Protestantism.
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