Blaming Luther for the Protestant Reformation and the world today is the same as blaming Columbus for the mess America is in today.
Luther was ONE man in the whole movement and it was going to happen anyways, whether he stood up to the Catholic church monopoly and corruption or not.
“Blaming Luther for the Protestant Reformation and the world today is the same as blaming Columbus for the mess America is in today.”
No, it is not.
“Luther was ONE man in the whole movement and it was going to happen anyways, whether he stood up to the Catholic church monopoly and corruption or not.”
There is no logical reason to believe a Protestant Revolution was “going to happen anyways” without presupposing the first Protestant - and that was Luther. Luther came up with sola scriptura. Luther came up with sola fide. Luther created the basis for a Lutheran sect.
All Columbus did was sail West and accidentally discover land that had always been there. He died 14 years later. He was almost forgotten about in English speaking America until Washington Irving’s biography of him in the middle of the nineteenth century. That never happened with Luther.
Do you know what three men have the greatest number of biographies written about them in all of history? Jesus Christ, Adolf Hitler, and Martin Luther.
When Luther wrote something it got published soon. That can’t be said for Columbus: https://www.amazon.com/Libro-profecías-Christopher-Columbus-Quincentenary/dp/0813010543
Columbus never made it to Asia. Protestantism did.
Luther is more responsible for the the world today than Columbus. It’s undeniable.