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Thank you here's Your smoke du jour brought to you

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by indulgences Like when you eat an entire pint of

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rocky road ice cream in a single sitting Not that

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we've ever done that It's a hypothetical Take a look

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at this image in tallinn Von warner Well here's today's

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question The man portrayed in the image above was previously

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motivated to attack the ninety five thesis on the door

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of the castle church of wittenberg Because of which of

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the following causes and hear your potential answers Sacrament expenses

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burial All right well luther had ninety five problems but

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a sacrament ain't one of them Sorry we couldn't exist

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In actuality he only had one real problem Hence the

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question Okay so let's figure out what uh which one

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It wass with luther motivated by a requirement of sacrament

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for penance That is a private confession to a priest

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in exchange for absolution Well no he was totally fine

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with that one Nor did he take particular issue with

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expensive burial fees or even the selling of church offices

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both of which he chalked up to being examples of

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the way in which the church had become a financial

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institution point being he understood the church had to make

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money so those two weren't breaking his point That eliminates

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be indeed That means that luther's breaking point was c

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the selling of indulgences which effectively allowed people to buy

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their way into heaven through forgiveness not cool Ever hear

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of paying for your sins that's kind of the idea

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And while the truth promise that buying indulgences would pardon

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people of their sins revenue was in fact being used

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to pay the church's deads to bankers and rome for

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the building of new churches as all great angsty artists

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do luther used his unhappiness as fuel for his writing

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soc is the correct answer Ninety five pieces on the

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castle door Ninety five pieces on the door Take one

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down starting new religion ninety five pieces on the castle 00:01:54.139 --> [endTime] door

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