What abuses did Martin Luther and reformers have problems with?
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They were most pissed off about the selling of indulgences.
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well he got excommunicated, for one. but something tells me he didn't mind. his view on the Jews is very controversial.
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In 1517, he nailed to a church door in Wittenberg, Saxony, a manifesto listing 95 arguments, or Theses, against the use and abuse of indulgences, which were official pardons for sins granted after guilt had been forgiven through penance. Particularly objectionable to the reformers was the selling of indulgences, which essentially allowed sinners to buy their way into heaven, and which, from the beginning of the sixteenth century, had become common practice. But, more fundamentally, Luther questioned basic tenets of the Roman Church, including the clergy's exclusive right to grant salvation. He believed human salvation depended on individual faith, not on clerical mediation, and conceived of the Bible as the ultimate and sole source of Christian truth.
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http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/ninetyfive.html Always go to the source if you can, rather than believing what others tell you. Here is a link to his actual theses.
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The "final straw" for Luther was the selling of indulgences to finance Church construction projects. The other reasons are detailed in his "95 Theses". +5 Betony
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