The Problem with Protestantism
Pope Leo X's Bull against the errors of Martin Luther ( Exsurge Domine ) The Problem with Protestantism | Wednesday – September 16, 2026 P rotestantism was not the beginning of the many problems that have occured in the last centuries, this from a Western point of view, but Protestantism was the start of something much more palpable and impactful at the level of corporeal conception, namely a profound step in the political evolution of the Western World , individuation and individualism. If Protestantism started out as a rebellion against the Pope, the Pontiff , and really the Holy Roman Empire itself, it ended by not only creating an entirely new Church and doctrine, but by creating an entirely new and wicked mode of being, that of political individualism. If in the past men had to interact with God through the clergy and through their spiritual autothority, a bridge really that represented a connection with the divine, a qualified connection , Martin Luther decided sever this con...