Henry VIII Sparked Protestantism
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Sam tells a story about how the Protestant religion was established due to Henry VIII's personal situation.
"The Protestants - if you're like an evangelical Christian, if you're Baptist, if you're like all these other different types of Christian religions, you're probably Protestant. Martin Luther came up with it, and in the 1500s the King of England basically had like 8 divorces because he couldn't have a kid - he was infertile.
The Pope was like 'Hey, you can't have these divorces anymore, this is bullshit.' And Henry's like 'No, fuck that, then we're gonna switch to Protestant because that allows me to get a divorce and I can have all these kids.'
And so now there's a billion Protestants in the world because he just wanted a divorce."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.