POLS 300 Study Guide - Total Depravity
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Martin luther, cont"d: it is personal as well. The government and church should not be forcing faith onto people: even if you torture someone and try to force them into christianity, they could lie. Said that the government have nothing to do with the spiritual world. Priests don"t need to be involved in trying to run governmental affairs. Had a progressive view of freedom of thought: cant try to physical punish or coerce someone of heresy, freedom of thought should be the rule. You cant force someone to think or believe something. Let people believe what they want to. Faith has to be freely accepted don"t really believe or think the way you want them to. Tried to address that thoughts could be dangerous: people saying god doesn"t exist" is dangerous, nothing temporal can effect your relationship with god. He was developing his theories over a period of time (incremental: reacting to changing conditions, environment was changing.
