I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church. Margaret George
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Dr. Martin Luther was a German theologian, pastor, professor, monk and a leader of the Protestant Reformation. He is known for his Ninety-five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences to be Reformed" . In his Ninety-five Theses, he argued that the Catholic Church had gone too far in its demands for money from people to help them get into heaven. So, he put forward a list of theological issues that needed to be addressed if the church was going to be reformed.

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