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

Protestantism 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 connection once and for all, although it can be argued that Martin Luther did not have this intention in mind, and indeed that the start of this disruption did not begin with Martin Luther either, a point that I have made elsewhere and linked to above. Martin Luther did however mark the final rupture with whatever spiritual authority that was still left in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently Europe in the 16th century, and this combined in the following century with the Peace of Westphalia marked the final end of true spiritual authority on the continent, and really from this point on, the future that we are living in today could have been foreshadowed by wise men, read "Democracy". Again, I need to reiterate this: the intention of Martin Luther was not to destroy the Holy Roman Empire, nor was it to destroy the Spiritual Authority of the Catholic Church, but these were the results of his actions, well these were partly the results of his actions combined with many other things as well, such as the destruction of the Order of the Knights Templars in the 14th century, which is a point that I also keep returning to, read "Temporal Power". But again, we must do something with history, we must use history to understand our moment and to predict the future, for the human conditions remains essentially static across time and history, which is why humanity is a permanent reference point; history is not important in and of itself unless we can ground it in humanity, but I digress. Before I go on, I must also mention that yes, the Catholic Church had been corrupted and was already partly under the control of tyrants before Martin Luther, and this is why he was not necessarily wrong in portions of his thesis.

    I mentioned individualism, and yes, individualism is quite inseparable from this adverse spiritual development, this deviation, for what the first Lutherans demanded, what Protestants demand today, is an unqualified and egalitarian communication with the divine, which in practise must undergo many mutations, even if the original intention was pure, and all of these mutations have contributed to the extreme individualism of today, for what these people essentially demanded and keep demanding is that there can be no one unified source, but instead a multitude of thousands if not millions of scattered fragments that can be manipulated and turned inside out to convey whatever suits the individual at the moment, really these people are not only the forebears of the rampant individualism of today, they are also the same people who laid the foundations of the humanist axiom and all the pseudo principles of liberalism that continue to shape our world and perpetuate the mutations of the original source. Again, whether or not this was the original intention of Martin Luther or not is quite irrelevant, for the consequences are clear: we are dealing with a monster, a force that was unleashed on the world, a force that has transformed the world to such an extent that today most people have no memory of anything beyond the purely individualistic, the purely material, really the memory of Abraham (אַבְרָהָם). Nations-states, individualism, materialism, spiritual confusion, and a God that can be defined by the momentary whims of some crazed fundamentalist convinced that he is truly qualified, and a world filled with deceit in multitudes,* for this is the only true state a world of severe deviation can manifest as, read "Politics". Again, all of this cannot be blamed on Lutheranism and its mutant Protestantism, as they are only points in history that help us explain the current state of the world. Alos, at the same time, we must blame Protestantism for what it deserves to be blamed for, namely the spiritual force, deviated though it is, behind the fall of Western Civilization, and for this the men without qualification can be blamed, but only partly, read "The Eschatology of the Kali Yuga".

    As I have noted several times above: Protestantism alone is not to blame for the current predicaments, and if we are really crude about it, nothing but the current cycle is to blame for all this, but it is still worth understanding why the world is the way it is and what role Protestantism has played, and in particular the mutants that this deviated stream has released upon the world, the Western World in particular, because for the Bourgeoise to become enabled in the first place to claim dominion over temporal power, the last vestiges of any kind of spiritual authority had to be evacuated of all residues of true authority, though latent that authority was, and with that the Bourgeoisie could begin to proclaim the mechanical universe, what moderns call the "enlightenment". Today therefore, to be "religious" as they call it, is a mere personal and individualistic matter of faith, often in something invisible and fantastic. Yes, of course religion should be mocked, because it, like most other things of the old world, is completely misplaced in our world, read "Modern Civilization". I suppose to that much of Protestantism was never about perceiving spiritual authority, really, this is a personal observation, it seems that Protestantism was always about finding a convenient way to undermine spirituality itself when it stood in the way of essentially secular or proto-secular rulers, and yes this is why I find it quite appropriate to label Protestantism a kind of precursor to Politics, a point that I have also made elsewhere.

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – September 16, 2026.

Footnotes(s)

* Here I must direct you to my posts: "My Views on Fundamentalism" and "The Hypocrisy of the Pious". Another post that is somewhat relevant in this context is "The Puritan Fallacy".