Comments by "Hallow334" (@Hallow334) on "A Fun, Animated History of the Reformation and the Man Who Started It All | Short Film Showcase" video.

  1. Wow! Martin Luther would turn over in his grave if he knew what medieval, secular society did to his story after his death. There are so many lies about Luther in this cartoon. I had no idea until I watched a documentary on him that dispelled much of what is taught in a lot of denominations.
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  2.  @jimeatscorn6628  A number of things. First is the accusation that the Church was trying to get the poor to spend all their money on indulgences and second, that indulgences were easy to get if you were rich and not if you were poor. Both claims are untrue. The book "Religion and Devotion in Europe 1215-1515" explains the Church first wanted people to do acts of worship and faith. Indulgences were used as an incentive to help people grow, spiritually. This is something everyone could do. It didn't cost anything. The indulgences that were associated with money, cost about 4 pence, which would not cost anyone all their money. To give you an idea of what 4 pence was worth, the book "Worlds Within Worlds: Structured of Life in Sixteenth Century London" says 4 pence was the equivalence of two rabbits. Once again, not very much at all. At the time, there was also a sliding scale of how much things cost, according to how much you earned. This was put in place by Henry VIII when he came into power in 1509. The more expensive plenary indulgences cost 16 pence for a rich person. While these books detail life in England, the costs of living in Germany weren't much different. So they were much less for the poor. Another thing wrong is that Luther was against indulgences. He actually wasn't. The next big thing is the 95 theses. He never nailed it on the door of the church. He sent it in the mail to the archbishop (a search on Google with show that most experts refute the story about the nailing of the document). What is true is there was a rogue priest, Johan Tetzel, that was going against the archbishop's wishes and charging wrongly for indulgences. Let me pause right here because I will end up writing a book explaining all this to you. Search YouTube for a video named "8 Myths about Martin Luther and The Reformation". It would be much faster for you to watch the video than it would be for me to type everything out. He has the same information I am typing, but he goes into more detail. I believed the story of Martin Luther my whole life. When I took the time to look into it, I was very surprised. None of the story actually came from Martin Luther, himself.
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  3. You know no one ever heard him say that.
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  4.  @jimeatscorn6628  It's based on a secular, anti-Christian myth about Luther. He would turn over in his grave if he knew the lies that were propagated against him in this story. He never said or did much of what this cartoon claims.
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  5. If Luther saw how medieval secularists manipulated his story for their anti-Christian benefit, after his death, he would turn in his grave. There are so many lies about him in this cartoon. This cartoon is the secularist mythology of Martin Luther. I believed this version of the story since I was a kid. There is a video that dissects this cartoon, point by point. Truly mind blowing.
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  6. There were actually 18 German translations of the Bible. Fourteen were written in High German and four were written in Low German.
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  7. Actually it wasn't cut in half. Another one was created.
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  8.  @X_mano  It was only split into two. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. There are the Eastern or Oriental Catholic Churches and there are the Eastern or Oriental Orthodox Churches. The Oriental/Eastern Catholic Churches are also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches. This group consists of 23 churches (or branches), in 5 different Rites. The Eastern Syrian (or Chaldean) Rite, Western Syrian (or Antiochene) Rite, Alexandrian Rite, Armenian Rite and Constantinopolitan (or Byzantine) Rite. They are all Catholic. Their Rites may differ slightly from Roman Catholic, which is the other Rite, for a total of 6 Rites.
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