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Indulgences were a product of the Middle Ages.

The church needed money to build, decorate and furnish its cathedral in Rome. The thinking was that priests did so much work that there was an abundance of "credit" in their spiritual accounts. The pope approved a procedure through which sinners could purchase forgiveness from the church and it was represented by an actual piece of paper called an indulgence. An indulgence could also be converted into a good work done by the purchaser even though the actual good work has been done by clergy.It could be used to mitigate a friend or relative's punishment in purgatory.

With the invention of the printing press, indulgences could be mass produced and counterfeited, purchased in bulk and traded! This practice was an extreme example of the incompatibility between church teachings and logic and morality. The practice of indulgences was especially condemned by Martin Luther and led to the schism that initiated the Protestant Reformation.

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