@Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoOur society has long passed the time during which a single person or writing could change everyone's opinions.message-square41fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1105arrow-down1message-squareOur society has long passed the time during which a single person or writing could change everyone's opinions.@Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
See, I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine, and it’s perfect example of something impossible today.
minus-squareValiantDustlinkfedilink18•5 months agoI’m not sure the Catholic Church would agree that Martin Luther changed everyone’s opinion.
minus-square@iii@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish-1•edit-25 months agoI’m not sure the whole arab or asian world would agree. They’re still colonizing africa.
minus-square@Sundial@lemm.eelinkfedilink-5•5 months agoMLK definitely did not change everyone’s opinion. A lot of people? Sure. Everyone? Absolutely not.
minus-square@Sundial@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•5 months agoAh that’s my bad. My point still stands though. It’s not like he was able to convince everyone to become Protestant.
minus-squareHam Strokers EjaculalinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoThe people who chose to remain catholic had no opinion on protestantism before it was invented, then they formed a negative opinion of it. Opinion changed, cheque mate aetheistises.
minus-squareEleventhHourlinkfedilink-1•edit-25 months agoThat was not a criterion of OP’s question. As such, it doesn’t really matter. Just that they were changed is the qualifier here. If I were to guess, it at least changed their opinion of Martin Luther, even if they didn’t become protestants.
Ask Martin Luther
I’m not sure the Catholic Church would agree that Martin Luther changed everyone’s opinion.
It certainly changed their opinion of him
I’m not sure the whole arab or asian world would agree. They’re still colonizing africa.
MLK definitely did not change everyone’s opinion. A lot of people? Sure. Everyone? Absolutely not.
I said Martin Luther, not Martin Luther King
Ah that’s my bad. My point still stands though. It’s not like he was able to convince everyone to become Protestant.
The people who chose to remain catholic had no opinion on protestantism before it was invented, then they formed a negative opinion of it. Opinion changed, cheque mate aetheistises.
But everyone’s opinion was changed.
Opinion of what exactly?
That was not a criterion of OP’s question. As such, it doesn’t really matter. Just that they were changed is the qualifier here.
If I were to guess, it at least changed their opinion of Martin Luther, even if they didn’t become protestants.