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[escardos]

so imagine you're making ratatouille and you don't like tomatoes. you don't like the taste, the texture, the putting them in water and the peeling them-- ugh! so you say to yourself "lookit, this whole dish is nothing but vegetables, so what does it matter if i leave the tomatoes out?" a seemingly innocuous decision on the surface, but 2 hours or whatever later when you're done cooking, you open the oven to find a complete mess! just a pot full of baked vegetables, none of them congealed or somehow unified. what happened to your beloved ratatouille?! so you take to google and find that the tomatoes are an essential ingredient of ratatouille, as they forma a "sauce" of a certain kind that makes the whole thing work. and so a seemingly innocent decision has destroyed the very foundation of the established order with disturbing ramifications towards the whole. in this essay i will examine how martin luther's 95 theses lead to protestants being more boring than catholics.

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[alreadyhuman]

so protestants didnt like tomatoes and that's why they split? (°ロ°)! they must have had some really strong opinions about food!!

[escardos]

not at all! they split up because of criticism towards the catholic church and the pope's abuse of power through indulgences!

the ratatouille analogy is to demonstrate how one small decision can snowball into an entire movement that shakes the core of something that seemed as unshakable as the catholic church.

and that you should never forget to put tomatoes in your ratatouille.

[alreadyhuman]

oh so its not anything to do with food after all.......i see! (・・ ) so its a metaphor!!

i guess that makes sense. if you take a big ingredient out of a dish then it doesnt taste as good, so the protestants ended up more boring than the catholics because they took out something they didnt think was important but actually was?

[ He's clinging to the cooking metaphor because he knows nothing about religion and way more about recipes. ]

[escardos]

somewhat! although the catholic church has also changed how indulgences work since the middle ages (over 500 years ago!), so really the church is just as boring, whether it's protestant or catholic. oh well!

[alreadyhuman]

oh.

that sounds kinda weird....
how come they're so boring? do they like being that way? is it a church thing? that sounds sad... (｡•́︿•̀｡)

[escardos]

gotta be boring to keep the masses orderly and boring as well!

i definitely don't recommend going to church. but i *do* recommend reading the bible. it gets pretty wild lmao.

[alreadyhuman]

theres so many versions of it though! ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ do i have to read them ALL????