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Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation expanded individual liberty and religious power to ordinary people by insisting that clergy did not have sole access to God and the Bible could be interpreted by individuals. Luther also believed salvation came from faith in biblical stories about Jesus rather than good deeds. This led millions of ordinary people in the 1500s to decide they had the right to decide what was true, regardless of expert opinions, and passionate belief was key. This established the foundations for the development of Fantasyland.

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Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation expanded individual liberty and religious power to ordinary people by insisting that clergy did not have sole access to God and the Bible could be interpreted by individuals. Luther also believed salvation came from faith in biblical stories about Jesus rather than good deeds. This led millions of ordinary people in the 1500s to decide they had the right to decide what was true, regardless of expert opinions, and passionate belief was key. This established the foundations for the development of Fantasyland.

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“After the launch of this new Christianity, the new printing enabled its spread. Luther’s main complaint
had been about the church’s sale of phony VIP passes to Heaven. “There is no divine authority,” one of
his theses pointed out, “for preaching that the soul flies out of the purgatory immediately [when] the
money clinks in the bottom of the chest.” Within a few decades that was moot anyhow, because the
Vatican ended the practice of selling salvation. However, Luther had two bigger ideas, revolutionary
ideas, that became foundational both to his religion and to America. He insisted that clergymen have no
special access to God or Jesus or truth. Everything a Christian needed to know was in the Bible. So every
individual Christian believer could and should read and interpret Scripture for him- or herself. Every
believer, Protestants said, was now a priest.” -Andersen, Kurt. Fantasyland (pp. 16-17). Random House
Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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Protestantism, even those didn’t guarantee you entry.)” -Andersen, Kurt. Fantasyland (p. 17). Random
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“However, out of the new Protestant religion, a new proto-American attitude emerged during the 1500s.
Millions of ordinary people decided that they, each of them, had the right to decide what was true or
untrue, regardless of what fancy experts said. And furthermore, they believed, passionate fantastical
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belief was the key to everything. The footings for Fantasyland had been cast.” -Andersen, Kurt.
Fantasyland (p. 17). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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