@mountaineer
Uhhh,I don't know who Ian Millhiser is or where he lives,but people who live in the area where I live have known about fire for a long,LONG time now.
It took "rootless progressives" to start "The Reformation" that ended the grip of terror the Catholic Church held over all of Europe and the New World,too.
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* The catalyst for the Reformation was Martin Luther, an Augustinian Theologian and Monk. Progressivism didn't exist in his era.
* That so called "grip of terror" of the Catholic Church, was the nurturing of Greek and Roman
attitudes, behaviors, impulses and sentiments during the High Middle Ages till the Renaissance;
which were the bedrock of Western Civilization.
* Luther's 95 Theses were issued in 1517 when the New World did not exist, as the
Age of Exploration was only beginning.
Try the library. It's that stone building w/the history books inside!!!