Indulgences
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Of course, we all have our little
indulgences
.
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And there were no
indulgences
around that I could buy.
It turns out that in the 1450s, the Catholic Church needed money, and so they actually hand-wrote these things called indulgences, which were forgiveness’s on pieces of paper.
And when the printing press was invented what they found was they could print indulgences, which was the equivalent of printing money.
That is why the printing press succeeded, and that is why Martin Luther nailed his 90 theses to the door: because he was complaining that the Catholic Church had gone amok in printing out
indulgences
and selling them in every town and village and city in all of Western Europe.
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