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Our society has long passed the time during which a single person or writing could change everyone's opinions. (lemmy.world)
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See, I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine, and it's perfect example of something impossible today.

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[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Ask Martin Luther

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.org 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure the Catholic Church would agree that Martin Luther changed everyone's opinion.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

It certainly changed their opinion of him

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

MLK definitely did not change everyone's opinion. A lot of people? Sure. Everyone? Absolutely not.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I said Martin Luther, not Martin Luther King

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ah that's my bad. My point still stands though. It's not like he was able to convince everyone to become Protestant.

[–] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But everyone’s opinion was changed.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Opinion of what exactly?

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] iii@mander.xyz -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm not sure the whole arab or asian world would agree. They're still colonizing africa.