ingemann
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« on: May 09, 2014, 03:40:56 PM » |
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While Mcx explanation are likely mostly correct. I think there are some earlier historical context.
Other people have mentioned Jan Hus and the Hussites, who later was integrated into Lutheranism. What people forget are that Lutheranism was more or less eradicated in Bohemia and Moravia after the 30 Year War by the Austrian Habsburg and replaced with Catholism. This meant when the Czech had their national awakening in the 19th century, it romantised the earlier Hussite and Lutheran movement, but at the same time people didn't reconvert to these. So we ended up with a Czech identity, where Protestantism was on a unconscious level connected with Czech-ness and Catholism with Austria/German-ness, this was not a big problem before WW2, where Czechs and Germans still lived in relative friendly co-existance. But after WW2 German people and culture was purged from the state, as such this also showed itself in people choosing to leave Catholism.
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