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Five hundred years ago, a Catholic monk named Martin Luther nailed his ’95 Theses’ on the door of a Catholic church in Germany. Back then, among other things, the priests were selling slips of paper to people that declared the forgiveness of all their sins. Those people would then go out and do whatever they pleased, because they had this “ticket” into Heaven. Martin Luther did not think this was right. He felt that you could not buy your way into God’s Kingdom. You only need to have faith in God. Luther did not want to start a new denomination of Christianity, but wanted instead to change the Catholic Church. He felt that people needed to live by the rules in the Bible, not what was made up by people, like those “tickets.” The Catholic Church didn’t like this much, and Luther got into a bunch of trouble. I won’t go into that, but that’s how Protestant denominations started, including, of course, Lutheran!

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Name : Shari28090, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Lutheran, Age : 28, City : Canton, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : Teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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