The Protestant Reformation and the Importance of Religion

For the first time, society can run itself. In this great area of life, we can now allow the people there to come to their own conclusion on religion and it all works out real fine. But from another point of view, the Protestant Reformation was not very helpful to freedom. By weakening the church, that is, by splitting up religion, now the church needed the state more than the state needed the church. The early modern period is the period of increasing royal absolutism. As against the late Middle Ages, the central power grows. King sets up his own bureaucracy,. mainly from the middle class, from new sources of taxes. They're supported and they're his men