>>514047793
* luther is important not for his ideas which are neither novel nor compendious but for his place in history which was secured by fredrick iii hohenzollern the elector of brandenburg
* euler wrote https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/euler-works/92/ definitively destroying "freethinkers" as lazy
* kant was a gaytheist
* mozart beethoven and bach were actually black
compare with
* boyle, the guy who wrote shakespeare (en)
* aquinas (it)
* dostoevsky, solzhenitsyn (ru)
* cervantes (es)

>>512495713
each state had one elector. the elector of brandenburg was fredrick iii hohenzollern, and his protection made lutheranism possible. the electoral college was intended to resemble the electoral college of the hre, but in practice states pick electors based on party slates and plebiscites