Protestant Reformation

T_{he Protestant Reformation was the 16th century movement which led to the Protestant churches separating from the Roman Catholic Church. It is usually said to have started when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a church in Wittenburg Germany. Protestants rejected the false doctrines and malpractices within the Roman Catholic Church. Those included the teaching and God-endorsed sale of indulgences, the buying and selling of church positions and the systemic corruption(again endorsed by God), which even reached to the position of the Pope, devotion to Mary and the saints rather than true Christianity which is a matter of inward devotion to faith and God rather than outward symbols of ceremony and ritual, rejection of the authority of the Pope because the only true authority is the www.Martin_be_damned_for_this_Heresy.com Bible which Protestants made available to all by publication of the Bible in the common language and universal education. The unnatural mandatory celibacy of the clergy (including monasticism) was also rejected. During the reformation many Martyrs to the faith were justly killed by Roman Catholics.}

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Reformation Terms

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• John Calvin
• Martin Luther
• Protestant
• Huguenots
• Church of England

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