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Tomek_Hermsgavorden t1_j27o4ca wrote

Reply to comment by temporarysecretary17 in TIL Martin Luther King was born Michael King Jr. However, his father, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, traveled to Germany and became inspired by the Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther. As a result, King Sr. changed his own name as well as that of his five year old son. by 54_actual

Protestants were the ones who were persecuted in Europe and fled to America for safety right?

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Oh Protestants were the ones going around fucking murdering everyone and when told to stop it, went to America to be able to keep killing witches.

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Valharja t1_j28475f wrote

You know protestants are also most of Northern Europe right? Many of the ones going to America were further offshoots that thought the general public wasn't hardcore enough, but the ones staying were also protestant and continue to be so today.

Persecution was mainly during the breakaway from Catholicism until the nations themselves turned on Catholicism.

Everyone burned witches though you might wonder why the people broken on the wheel is somehow never mentioned :(

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Tomek_Hermsgavorden t1_j288rni wrote

We are getting off topic but Wheels were for traitors, robbers, rapists and murderers.

Fucking awful and slow way to die.

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critfist t1_j28fpzy wrote

> Oh Protestants were the ones going around fucking murdering everyone and when told to stop it, went to America to be able to keep killing witches.

Bruh. There's ripping apart history and there's doing so because of reddit same think.

Importantly the protestants are an intensely varied group with dozens of creeds. Ranging from pacifists to millenarian militants. If you want an example of the pot calling the kettle black with said militants though, the catholic church is as well famous for persecuting people who were labelled witches, apostates, heretics, or any other seditious group.

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