Luther and the Protestant Reformation: Crash Course World History #218
In which John Green teaches you about the Protestant Reformation. Prior to the Protestant Reformation, pretty much everyone in Europe was a Roman Catholic. Not to get all great man, but Martin...
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Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course World History and today we’re going to talk about the Protestant Reformation. Mr Green, Mr. Green, this is irrelevant for me; I’m an atheist. Yeah I know Me From the Past, because I’m you. Although actually you are now Episcopalian, a Protestant church started because a King wanted to get a divorce. But anyway let me submit that religious history is important regardless of your personal religious beliefs, because it helps us to understand the lenses through which people have viewed their lives and communities, and given that, the Protestant Reformation is what proper historians refer to as A Big-Ass Deal -- which I will remind you is not cursing if you are referring to donkeys. So before the Reformation, p...
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Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course World History and today we’re going to talk about the Protestant Reformation. Mr Green, Mr. Green, this is irrelevant for me; I’m an atheist. Yeah I know Me From the Past, because I’m you. Although actually you are now Episcopalian, a Protestant church started because a King wanted to get a divorce. But anyway let me submit that religious history is important regardless of your personal religious beliefs, because it helps us to understand the lenses through which people have viewed their lives and communities, and given that, the Protestant Reformation is what proper historians refer to as A Big-Ass Deal -- which I will remind you is not cursing if you are referring to donkeys. So before the Reformation, p...
