Does America Need A Reformation?

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1. The Reformation actually lead to an increase in religious extremism. And war.

The Reformation was the answer to the institutional corruption within the Catholic Church.
(Some scholars claim, it was also about the willingness of the Catholic Church to adopt pre-christian roman and greek philosophy into their teachings.)

When the Reformation came, it replaced a corrupt church with religious fanatics hellbent on destroying people who don't believe in the Bible in the right way.

Europe was split with England, France and half of Germany on one side, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the other half of Germany on the other side.

In 1619 a local political problem in Bohemia (nowadays Czech Republic) lead to a geopolitical clash, when both a protestant and a catholic noble claimed right to the title of King of Bohemia. And just like later WWI, this served the various rulers as a convenient pretext for going to war against each other. The result was the 30-Year-War.