Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoOur society has long passed the time during which a single person or writing could change everyone's opinions.message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up110arrow-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 · 19 days agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
See, I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine, and it’s perfect example of something impossible today.
minus-squareSundial@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoMLK definitely did not change everyone’s opinion. A lot of people? Sure. Everyone? Absolutely not.
minus-squareEleventhHour@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoI said Martin Luther, not Martin Luther King
minus-squareSundial@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days 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 Ejacula@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days 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.
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.