The Reformation and the shape we're in

Just a few lines from a choice chapter (30) and pivotal tract for our times.
This explains a lot of TSWI.

"Mysticism had no role in the early Protestant Reformation: both Luther and Calvin depended wholeheartedly on the persuasiveness of their carefully composed inked syllogisms. All founders urged their followers to have 'faith,' but the underpinnings of Protestantism were actually written, torturously logical constructions that were oresented in long dense, imageless tones...

The Protestant Reformation was clearly not a return to the content of the New Testament; but I submit, a wrenching sociological shift wrought by a new information technology dependent on users being alphabet-literate. This in turn changed the collective perception of culture. The printing press made the Reformation's rigid an repressive self-discipline possible."
-The Alphabet Vs The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image | by Leonard Shlain

By the way, pray for Shlain, he is recovering from a brain tumor (news)