He felt that he was doing something good, something that the pope and others would surely recognize as such. They were not his adversaries—not yet—and he was a faithful monk in the only church in Western Christendom. And he could not himself conceive of things snowballing as they would soon do. So, on the day he posted his letter and on the day he posted his theses, he had no idea what dark forces he would rouse from their slumbers.
