Protestants honor Reformation Day on October 31, which celebrates the day Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg. But the whole world owes the Reformation a debt of gratitude.
Arguably, Protestantism created modernity. That’s either a blessing or a curse, depending whom you might ask. Catholic and Eastern Orthodox critics fault Protestantism for modernity’s failures, including radical autonomous individualism, rabid secularism, ideological extremisms, and hedonism. Humanity would be more in sync with its Creator if Christianity had remained moored to the authority and continuity of Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, they say.
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