Okay, so I remember in high school our history class taught about the Catholic church selling tickets to Heaven to increase revenue. It was a long time ago, maybe in the middle ages. Can anyone explain when this happened, and the details of it?
Thanks!
2007-11-06 10:19:47 · 6 answers · asked by mathaowny 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They sold indulgences to people in order to fund the lavish lifestyle of the Catholic clergy and the building of St. Peter's Basilica. Martin Luther wasn't too happy about this, so he nailed his 95 Theses on the church door in Wittenberg in 1517. According to Luther, people could gain entry to heaven by faith alone rather than by good works. This led to the Protestant Reformation and then to the Catholic Counterreformation, in which the Catholic Church sought to clean up its ways (it stopped selling indulgences) and win back adherents lost to the Protestant Reformation.
2007-11-06 10:32:05 · answer #1 · answered by tangerine 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It was called the selling of indulgences. Good works in those days were counted on your "eternal tab" so to speak and the church would give recognition for these good works, increasing your chance of going to heaven in its eyes. However, with the Church in a financial bind, they just started selling them outright.
That's one of the major reasons that Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the church in Wittenberg. Luther was one of history's most famous whistleblowers.
2007-11-06 18:27:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some people that are So vain to think that they hold all the keys and "tickets" to Gods house. And she only asks us to be righteous and pure at heart to get an invitation.. We shouldn't commercialize our God for personal gain. Of course many people won't be able to go this deep to realize how wrong they are to criticize what I've said and we'll get a few smart *** remarks as usual from idiots and hypocrites
2007-11-06 19:27:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been involved with the Catholic Church for a very very long time and I have never heard anything like that.
No religion believes you can sell tickets to heaven....LOL
2007-11-06 18:36:58 · answer #4 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
well I am a catholic and I never heard of that one. Are you sure it was not indulgences? Sins, scandals and the like do not push me away from being catholic, for I know well enough, that since Christ founded his church with 12 sinners, one of who betrayed him, another who denied him in Christs darkest hour, that these things are bound to take place, I refuse to leave the church Jesus started just because of scandal, because of Judas Iscariot, I have courage to yet beleive in the words of Christ who has eternal truth!!
2007-11-06 19:07:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Scroll up and search the web for the phrase "Protestant reformation".
2007-11-06 18:23:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋