Kenneth’s Reviews > Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 > Status Update

Greengrass is so funny. Just doing a little parenthetical aside listing people executed for treason and amending the cause of death as "ditto".

"There is no paradise for cowards." is hilarious as a motivational speech.

"Jesuit Fransisco Cabral was reluctant to go into theological details with his Japanese neophytes lest they became experts and created heresies." LMAO skill issue. "What if the people I'm preaching to on my missionary trip get better at religion than me (⁠ ⁠≧⁠Д⁠≦⁠)"

I gotta do more research on the history of the separation of church and state. What do you mean the protestant reformation normalized civic courts? There has to be a prior example.

Really like the phrase "communal mechanisms of repair"

"[Alonso de Nájera's] solution: a line of forts, a permanent army, the extermination of the local Indians and their replacement by more quiescent Africans." Shit man imagine rebelling so well the Spaniards give up on trying to enslave you.

Okay now he's just making up words.

I'm glad that Greengrass has a grasp on who he's writing for. Sometimes in academics a concept or definition cannot be substituted with a layman term and Greengrass successfully explains each term before he drops it.

My apologies to Jan Brockleson but I personally don't think that streaking through town gives a person the right to change and enforce municipal law.