[aruanan]

I’m a Catholic who would agree that some good things came from the Reformation.

Think of the intellectual history of Protestant Europe and all the consequences it brought for the world, a higher level of scientific inventiveness notwithstanding, and come up with a cost/benefit ratio and see how close you can get to dividing by zero.

[married21]

I’ll think it over. Off-hand, though, I’m not sure the USA would have happened were it not for the worldview of English Protestant founders of our democratic republic. Whether that outweighs the harm done by the intellectual history of Protestant Europe, I’m going to earnestly ponder.

[driftdiver]

“Think of the intellectual history of Protestant Europe and all the consequences it brought for the world, a higher level of scientific inventiveness notwithstanding, and come up with a cost/benefit ratio and see how close you can get to dividing by zero.”

As opposed to the Catholics who have a negative cost/benefit? I wonder how many lives and souls could be saved if a fraction of the gold in the Vatican was taken off the wall and used.