Luther found the practise of “buying your sins away” that the catholic church was doing as highly bad. In that way “no you can’t wealth out of moral dimension in anyway” makes it more sensible. The catholic church was turning into a organization that exercised political and societal control rather than spiritual service.
In science if you make multiple replications you would expect them to have similar outcomes if the phenomen in question is in fact real. If there is a central authority that has beforehand decided what the result should be then that is not true measurement. Thus freeing all the differerent experiment runners to indiviudal verify the result rather than leaning on a opinion leader makes for a more reality-sensitive process. Luther thinking that persons should read the book for themselfs rather than have it read for them doesn’t seem so obviously lead to fractuation.
Luther thinking that persons should read the book for themselfs rather than have it read for them doesn’t seem so obviously lead to fractuation.
IMO it does, because 1) people’s innate judgment / different life experiences / contrarianism / etc. can lead them to disagree on interpretation. [Relevant xkcd] If your centralized authority is a person who can respond to events and questions, it’s obvious what the Pope says you should do about X, whereas if it’s a book that needs to be interpreted, people can more easily disagree about what the Bible says you should do about X.
Note also that a centralized authority both discourages rather than encourages that sort of disagreement and directs status-seeking to climbing the hierarchy instead of finding a thing to disagree on.
Luther found the practise of “buying your sins away” that the catholic church was doing as highly bad. In that way “no you can’t wealth out of moral dimension in anyway” makes it more sensible. The catholic church was turning into a organization that exercised political and societal control rather than spiritual service.
In science if you make multiple replications you would expect them to have similar outcomes if the phenomen in question is in fact real. If there is a central authority that has beforehand decided what the result should be then that is not true measurement. Thus freeing all the differerent experiment runners to indiviudal verify the result rather than leaning on a opinion leader makes for a more reality-sensitive process. Luther thinking that persons should read the book for themselfs rather than have it read for them doesn’t seem so obviously lead to fractuation.
IMO it does, because 1) people’s innate judgment / different life experiences / contrarianism / etc. can lead them to disagree on interpretation. [Relevant xkcd] If your centralized authority is a person who can respond to events and questions, it’s obvious what the Pope says you should do about X, whereas if it’s a book that needs to be interpreted, people can more easily disagree about what the Bible says you should do about X.
Note also that a centralized authority both discourages rather than encourages that sort of disagreement and directs status-seeking to climbing the hierarchy instead of finding a thing to disagree on.