“”The Reformation gave us wood chippers and fuzzy logic generators which are useful in their own way today.””
Spot on,my friend!
As The late Hilaire Belloc rightfully compares the reformation with Mohammed
“There is thus a very great deal in common between the enthusiasm
with which Mohammed’s teaching attacked the priesthood, the Mass and the
sacraments, and the enthusiasm with which Calvinism, the central motive
force of the Reformation, did the same. As we all know, the new teaching
relaxed the marriage laws_but in practice this did not affect the mass of
his followers who still remained monogamous. It made divorce as easy as
possible, for the sacramental idea of marriage disappeared. It insisted
upon the equality of men, and it necessarily had that further factor in
which it resembled Calvinism the sense of predestination, the sense of
fate; of what the followers of John Knox were always calling “the
immutable decrees of God.”-Hilaire Belloc
Yes, fatalism is very often fatal.