Why Were The Weaknesses Of The Church So Deeply Re

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Catholic beliefs had always been criticised by the people who didn’t see them as a way to represent Christianity. Surly Luther wasn’t the first person who stood against the pope, so we have to find out why Luther became so successful and got the huge support from the people. Religion played big role in the people who were living the 16th century lives, the majority people were poor, had nothing bright in future and there was great chance if they die at young age. The only hope was the after life, another world which you enter after your death and would have much better life .As we know nothing comes free, you had to be a good person to enter the heaven after your death ,Being good person meant following your church and doing what your god have said to you. This was the point where the church start to took advantage of people, people would do anything they could to make sure they are going to heaven. There was occasion when ordinary people saw something in the church which would make them feel they can’t trust the church anymore. The religious roles such as local priests were supposed to comfort people in hard times, they were supposed to live in a very simple life and spend their time praying and helping people. But many people saw their priest being drunk and doing things exactly against the religious ideas. In the other hand we had the popes, most of them took advantage of people’s beliefs such as believe in purgatory and made money out of it and rather spending on a good cause they spent it to make big churches and extending their empire. Despite all these fact people still believed in god and respected the church and as I said there were people who stood against the church like Wycliffe and Huss but none of their movement lasted after their death and even didn’t have huge amount of support when they were alive. Lutheranism was successful because of the where
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