with the invention of the printing press that highly highly influenced the entire protest Reformation which was all about words words words words words words words words words not nature anymore which we see in the native religions or even ancient
And now, we see communities having their place and their venue online, and that causes a resistance in return, a reformation and a counter-reformation . And so I celebrate the idea that we return to individuality and to community. And then there's also censorship that comes along as well and copyright and other mechanisms of control.
The conspiracy of the church was powerful. They staged a fake reformation to get people to believe that reform was possible-- all a show, orchestrated from the Vatican. So Martin Luther was running a false flag operation for the Pope?
And there were 20 of us. I was looking at-- Reformation does anybody-- does anyone know that?
conviction of the Christian faith about The Human Condition now a central Insight of the Protestant Reformation which is kind of observe of its obverse of its insistence on the unconditionality of God's love is that Human Stain and I'm using here the phrase from Richard from uh
The first are pornographers, and the second are ideological fanatics and terrorists. This was certainly true during the Reformation , when print was adopted far more rapidly and deftly by people we now, in retrospect, call Protestants, people who were protesting against the power of the pope, than by the Catholic Church itself, which had as much power to defend its hegemony over the world of ideas.
Well, I think the reason is that we had this big shift that took place in the 19th century where we went from this sort of network topology And that's ultimately what enabled the Reformation to get going.
It's a book of 26 chapters. It's not until the papacy panics in the Counter-Reformation and sets up an index of prohibited books.
And the rediscovery of "De Rerum Natura" was a fantastically important event. It became terribly influential on philosophers of the Renaissance and the Reformation , as well as the Enlightenment. From Spinoza to Thomas Jefferson, there were a lot of people who were huge fans of this poem.
The Catholic Church has ceased to be a monopoly. There's now a choice of religion after the Protestant Reformation . Copernicus has opened up the idea of a whole new world system.
Now, that's really interesting. The bad news is, the wars of the Reformation killed a third of Germany. There's an enormous amount of turmoil associated with changes of power.
I think it's fun, all the pop references that are intertwined, the modern day pop references that go within. Like the-- OK, ladies, let's get in reformation . It's like, those moments are very like, oh, how did you combine these worlds so seemingly?
the book. Now the codeex was invented long before Christianity but Christians were the first people who really used leads to Christianity. the invention of printing leads uh to the reformation and the birth of
You don't have to explain the story between each piece. So we'll have a section about the Civil Rights movement and a section about the Reformation so people can get slightly more invested in how music really made a difference. But it was saying, OK, what can we do just to have maximum impact and lots of variety?
Cambridge Analytica is just part of a gathering crisis around the power of the technology platform. Another element of this that I like about the advent of a powerful communications technology-- what happened with print and the Reformation and what seems to be happening now-- is, in both cases, certain powerful and seemingly extrinsic factors give new life to the medium.
And if you look at his sort of traffic stats, you get this. And this is the number of pamphlets that had been printed or reprinted in each year during the early years of the Reformation . So start down there and you can see in 1523, there's this massive traffic spike.
That's 350,000 just in that year. And actually, over the whole of the first decade of the Reformation , there's about 5 to 7 million pamphlets whizzing around in Europe. And they're amazingly accessible unlike a book.
as a teenager, I fantasized about creating illusions so elaborate they'd make Guy Hollingworth's Reformation look
weren't represented in mainstream mass media run by people who look like me, old white men. And now, we see communities having their place and their venue online, and that causes a resistance in return, a reformation and a counter-reformation . And so I celebrate the idea that we return to individuality and to community.
If you want to understand why we have tremendous polarization in online networks, if you want to understand why crazy stuff goes viral, and seems to go viral more readily than sensible stuff, look at the 16th and 17th centuries because I think the Reformation is a perfect kind of analogy-- not perfect, but it's a pretty good analogy-- for what we're experiencing today.
OK? It was kind of bittersweet, and it actually led me to this voyage of exploration and, hopefully, reformation for humanity's superlative prize.
And every time there's a great disruption, whether it's the industrial age, or the Renaissance, or the Reformation , we've always had these tools
It was forwarded by the cultivated Pope's, the Renaissance, by the great Protestant reformers, by the saints of the Counter Reformation , by the scholars, lawyers, and churchmen.
Which I got through the magisterium, instead, know-- just going back to the principles of the Reformation -- we're going to figure it out on our own.
concerns about that. So that's really our goal, then, through the Reformation Project.
And it looks like this. And this shows you have a great big spike in traffic in 1523, which is the height of the Reformation . Where you've got all the order world 353 prints of 1,000-- maybe 2,000-- copies of these pamphlets.
You can see that the retweets of existing pamphlets are sort of more important than the number of the actual pamphlets that he's putting out. And overall, there was something like 5 to 7 million pamphlets by Luther and others floating around Europe within the first 10 years of the Reformation . And the result was the splitting of Western Christendom, and the emergence of Protestant churches and Protestant Christianity.
Mark Hoppus: We've been, a friend of ours by the name of Haven Lamoureux has been on the road with us for two years kind of documenting the reformation of the band, us going on our
of film making and again, if we lose one to get the other, c'est la vie, right? The Protestant Reformation got rid of all the cathedral buildings and we got lots and lots of little wee kirks
And a number of people have picked up on the tradition, the early tradition in the church after the Protestant Reformation .