Angel: "Right, Martin, we need to have a long Talk about all that antisemitism. And also, the fact that your virulent anticlericism and hostility to anything other than sola scriptori paved the way for all this stuff. Sit back down."https://twitter.com/Josh_Clone/status/1265012886587322370 …
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Ok but that's really almost a besides-the-point, honestly. It's not like Luther was the only figure criticizing that practice, that's just what Protestants blow up to make him look better as opposed to "also he drove women out of womens' spaces, destroyed folk religion (cont)
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"and dealt a severe blow to the entire concept of clerical interpretation and doctrinal scholarship."
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You can still get indulgences. You can't buy them, but you get them for turning up to special masses. Where collection plates are passed around, in a completely unrelated coincidence.
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Indulgences are still a thing. You can get them for walking through special Holy Doors. There was one at the National Basilica in DC in 2017. Trent was one of many Church councils during the late medieval period that put enforcement of restrictions front and centre.
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Hell, incandescent ridiculous out of touch hot take: indulgences, bluntly, *make sense* doctrinally and ideologically; it's a public donation to support a community center (the church) and its charitable works, and in exchange for Doing That Good Thing, it outweighs a sinful act
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