The world we now inhabit is, in a sense, the world we deserve. To borrow from Scripture: the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children. The Reformation began with sincere questions of truth, belief and practice. It foundered on human obstinacy and violence on all sides, bringing forth an entirely new and drastically different consciousness.
Proving that the title for the OP is horribly wrong. The writer even admits it. Luther didn't "forge" the world of the Christian faith we have today and the only horror today that he might feel is the same kind ALL Christians have when the gospel is perverted and corrupted by obstinate and depraved men - it's never stopped.
“Proving that the title for the OP is horribly wrong. The writer even admits it. Luther didn’t “forge” the world of the Christian faith we have today and the only horror today that he might feel is the same kind ALL Christians have when the gospel is perverted and corrupted by obstinate and depraved men - it’s never stopped.”
No, Luther did forge much of the world as we have it today since he is the father of Protestantism. Whole nations abandoned orthodox Christianity for the novel set of ideas (many heretical) called Protestantism. This changed the destiny of nations and continents. Wars were started over this. Rebellions began over this. Already existing divides became more intense and religious in nature where no religious cause previously existed.
If a new religion could replace the only one anyone had ever known so could new states, new systems of economics, new cultural norms, new customs, and so on. This cannot be denied. We can look at Europe’s history and see it.