Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happy Reformation Day!

This post is dedicated to Martin Luther and all those who were involved in the Protestant Reformation. For those who don't know, it was on October 31, 1517, that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to church door in Wittenberg, Germany. These theses were in protest to the Catholic church's selling of indulgences. Indulgences were sold by the church in order to decrease the amount of time your loved one would spend in Purgatory. This idea appalled and angered Luther, so much so that he wrote the theses and nailed them to the local church door, where the news of the day was generally posted. This bold act was the flash point of what became known as the Protestant Reformation, a movement which eventually led to translation and printing of the King James Version of the Bible in 1611.

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