He "struggled" so much that his spiritual father had to tell him to stop confessing things because they were either too minor for him to care or not sins at all.
Also, as Luther himself noted, his biggest sin he struggled with was hating God.
When Martin Luther was an Augustinian friar, he struggled with a number of sins, especially sins against the flesh and his solution was to...
INVENT A RELIGION WHERE ALL OF HIS SINS WERE INCONSEQUENTIAL.
Hence, Luther's 5 solas...
Most of the schools in England were run by the monasteries so the literacy rate in England went from almost 50% to ~10% in a generation.
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England’s literacy rate prior to the Reformation was less than 20%, and jumped to more than 50% in the following century. A similar pattern occurred in other Protestant countries such as the Netherlands.
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