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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.

Comments

UN: KA_Kiske

[bejustorbedead]

I... I'm not sure if that is actually a good metaphor for the reformation, given the reasons behind it.

Or least, not the whole story?

Perhaps instead, the only tomatoes you had were rotten, and instead of getting fresh tomatoes one just simply tossed them out and went without.

[escardos]

getting fresh tomatoes is easier when theyre actual tomatoes and not ordering a complete rehaul of the catholic church tho