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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wraith: [QB] [QUOTE] How does the Pope offer purgatorial indulgences? Didint Martin Luther have issue with just that kind of scam? I recall some minor strife resulted [/QUOTE]I suppose that's one way of putting it... ;) I think the main problem Luther & co. had with purgatory is that it isn't mentioned in the Bible and appears to have been made up at some point by a Pope. It was seen as a bit off that people could get X years off their soul's time in purgatory by donating money to the church (often in wills to have prayers said for their soul by monks). Luther himself wanted to reform the church rather than split with it but the Catholics cracked down and later generations of Protestants became rather more fractuous. Which is where you get Calvin and Knox and so on. Not to mention the French Wars of Religion. And, of course, the English reformation and Elizabethan Church Settlement(A work of genius, BTW). Which then led to the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation (aka Counter Reformation) and Mission England and all that. Wasn't the 16th century fun? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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