The Moral Debates of the Reformation

The reformation ushered in the age of large scale debates on public morality. These debates really took off during the enlightenment as ideas about individual rights came to the fore. Certain subjects which no one had given much thought to previously, suddenly became grounds for intense conflict and often culminating in bloodshed. The best known of these debates is the one concerning slavery, which was finally decided in the us after the long and bloody civil war. In 19 95, 56 % of people were pro ce and 33 % were pro life. Today only a tiny number would be pro life.