Via the ever-valuable J.L. Wall , history professor Anders Henriksson’s complete, brief history of the world , compiled verbatim from papers written by his students. A gruesome sample:
The Reformnation happened when German nobles resented the idea that tithes were going to Papal France or the Pope thus enriching Catholic coiffures. Traditions had become oppressive so they too were crushed in the wake of man’s quest for ressurection above thenot-just-social beast he had become. An angry Martin Luther nailed 95 theocrats to a church door. Theologically, Luthar was into reorientation mutation. Calvinism was the most convenient religion since the days of the ancients. Anabaptist services tended to be migratory. The Popes, of course, were usually Catholic. Monks went right on seeing themselves as worms. The last Jesuit priest died in the 19th century.
A tumultuous age, to be sure, but soon came the Enlightenment which, we are informed, “was a reasonable time.”
