Countdown to Electiony: 95 Days
Oddly enough, there were also 95 Theses that Martin Luther, a German monk, famously nailed to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg in 1517 to express his displeasure with the Roman Catholic Church's practice of charging people money to be forgiven their sins.
This eventually led to the Protestant Reformation, a billion and a half splinter sects of Christianity, Pilgrims, American Evangelicalism, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the practice of charging people money to be forgiven their sins.
Martin's theses and eventual independence from the Church may be seen as a sort of precursor or inspiration to our own (mostly Protestant) Founding Fathers' Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
They certainly may be seen as that if you try hard enough. Try harder!
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Thank Obama iowagradstudent. I have an easy segue for a shit joke. I thought I remembered that fart in my theology class. Good shit comes out when ya take a good shit.
Plenary indulgence was the plot of Dogma. If its in a movie, its worth knowing.
If you can't be sorry for sinning, then maybe by losing money on the deal. This is not such a stretch.
yeah, bearness, if you want to be technical... but is the average layperson going to know what any of that even means?? basically, if you paid money, you'd get time off in purgatory. I can't think of any Evangelical groups who believe in purgatory. Now it's more along the lines of, "if you don't give us money, you're a bad Christian and your soul is in danger." Lutherans, though, still stick to their guns on that whole silly "faith alone" thing where God actually forgives sins without you doing penance or paying money.
That, and the Jews for being Jews.
Actually, the Catholic Church’s charging of people money plenary indulgences (remission of all of the temporal punishment that at that moment is due for sin) was one of his main complaints about the Catholic Church.
Risky Rev.: He had major bowel problems, yes.
Actually, it was more like the wars between all these various religious factions resulted in the Enlightenment ideals of reason and tolerance, which in turn brought about the U.S. Consitution. That's why we our first ammendment guarantees that the state won't make an official religion, and why we have separation of church and state: to preserve our freedom to hold different beliefs from one another without being killed or persecutes. It's something everyone, including Evangelicals (maybe even especially Evangelicals), ought to support.
That makes a lot of sense. He probably contracted something at the Diet of Worms.
Didn't Martin Luther come up with his greatest idea on the toilet bowl?
"Psst. Hate to break it to you gramps, but bald and short, not good prospects for a Presidential candidate...historically speaking, anyway."
Didn't you see the John Adams series on HBO?