Message from @Summī Imperator, 呪い殿
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All are to blame.
The real answer is that the Catholic Church scrambled to look legitimate in the face of Protestant criticisms and made a fool out of themselves in the process.
That's what reaction will do to the best laid plans.
Not having a contingency
The Catholic Church really was corrupt in the 15th century for sure, but before that they were doing quite well.
Indulgences are a good thing.
Protestants made indulgences synonymous with bribery to get into heaven.
I think rewards are a good thing.
Indulgence is not.
bullshit it's all made up
there's no scriptural evidence for purgatory
What an indulgence actually is is charity AFTER your sins have been absolved.
The selling of indulgences that we think of today is a Protestant myth and slander.
source?
Source for what?
that that's what an indulgence actually was
You could Google it and find that literally anywhere except maybe burnallcatholics.org
The problem is that nobody does.
They just believe whatever they learned in the two sentences they heard in a high school history class lecture about Protestantism.
It's the archaic definition of indulgence.
oh ok
yeah it's the purgatory thing
again, purgatory is bs
Archaic as in what they actually did at the time they were giving indulgences?
Archaic as in that is not the accepted definition in modern language.
that's what i was taught in history
i still believe it despite google
because google agrees
How does Google agree?
you buy yourself a quick trip out of purgatory
Indulgences are charity given after your sins are absolved as they normally would be for less time in purgatory. The problem was corrupt clergymen just selling indulgences and pocketing the money for themselves. The latter is the myth we're told in high school.
The money is supposed to go to a Church-sponsored charity.
but it didn't
But corrupt clergymen created fake charities and pocketed the money.
In the vast majority of cases it did.
ik the specific indulgence saleman martin luther got pissed at was not giving the money to charity
idk the bigger picture
Yeah, I'm not saying it didn't happen.
It did happen.
But the actual practice of indulgences was a good thing when it worked, and most of the time it did.