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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] When you invent the game, you make the rules, but I digress. I can't provide dates (I'm doing this from memory), but I believe that the original intent of the protestant movement was not a separation from the Catholic church but a call for reformation. The church had fallen into a number of objectionable practices, the only one of which I can recall at this moment being the sale of indulgences. An indulgence was like a "get out of hell free" card. You paid a priest (or other official of the church) and could receive exemption for any number of sins. Some proactive individuals even bought indulgences "ahead of need", as it were, just like someone today might buy condoms before going on a hot date. The problem of indulgences (apart from the dubious nature of the whole business) was that the more you could pay, the more you could get away with. When confronted by these protests and calls for reform, the church did not make any move to look into these accusations, but rather, closed ranks, though not universally. Martin Luther was a monk (or perhaps a priest, it's been a while since I looked this stuff up) who was protesting the corruption in the church, and was excommunicated for his troubles. The party line was that the church was infallible, and [i]it[/i] was the sole entity capable of declaring anything corrupt or not. In its own case, the church decided that the protesters were heretical at best, and excommunicated a few key individuals in the belief that this would shut the rabble up so they could get back to business as usual. Confronted with the threat of excommunication, a lot of people shut up and toed the party line. A lot of other people said, in effect: "Screw you, then!" and founded their own church based on essentially the same principles as the Catholic church, but including what reforms they thought were necessary. One reform was that church services were eventually done in the native language of the people attending, rather than Latin. Confession was abolished, since a corrupt priest could (and often did) misuse the information divulged by the confessor, and the prohibition against priests marrying (originally instituted to eliminate the temptation to make a holy office a hereditary position) was lifted. I don't recall when the term: "Protestant" was coined, but I'll bet that it wasn't originally an English term. I also don't recall if the Anglican church is considered a protestant church or not. Someone with more information is invited to fill in the blanks and correct errors in the above. --Baloo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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