On 2018-07-14 3:40 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, July 14, 2018 at 3:28:37 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:

>> The Reformation wasn't exactly the calming down of Christianity, which
>> was basically Catholicism at the time. Many of the Protestants were as
>> bad as or worse than the Catholic Church.
>
> But it paved the way for a more tolerant society.

It definitely told the Roman Catholic Church that it no longer had a
firm control over the people. A lot of Protestants are still stuck in
their fundamentalist views. The RC church has certainly lost its hold on
its own people.