You Don't Have to Be a Christian to Have a Personal Relationship to God

Protestantism was a way of trying to deal with the growing desire for individuality, which has been going on since the renaissance. So rostantism said, no, you don't have to be what catholicism says is just part of something you're told to do. You can have a personal relationship to god. It's one of the great motor forces that allowed capitalism to come up. Because if you can actually achieve a relationship through your own actions with god and achieve salvation, then you can actually say,. i achieve all sorts of things myself in the here and now, before i die, which may save me when i die.