By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc. / LMMiami.com
- Protestantism began because the Catholic Church was selling indulgences: documents that exculpated the dead and the alive from spending time in hell or purgatory.
- Yup, the Holy Church literally was, and possibly still is, a “salvation retailer”.
- In the 1500s some mid-level religious staff mostly in Northern Europe “protested” this questionable practice.
- Politics kicked in.