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That's Mark Luther.

Yeah.

And he was a Catholic monk who started to read the Bible in the languages because he was being taught something other than Latin.

He was learning the Greek and Hebrew and realized.

This ain't what they was teaching in the Roman Catholic Church.

So started the Protestant Reformation.

He was a faithful Roman Catholic monk, just wanted to reform the church.

That's why it's called the Reformation.

But it ended up being a schism because the Pope said, I'm not going to reform.

In fact, death sentence on you.

So Pope Leo X was ripping peasants off because he wanted to build churches.

the paintings and the basilica and all that stuff in Rome.

He wanted to have that.

So he was charging the common people money for indulgences, which means get your loved ones out of purgatory, which is almost like hell, but not hell.

And so you can pay to get them out earlier.

Luther said this is an abhorrent practice, not in Scripture.

So a big problem he had was with indulgences.

And the Catholic Church has not done enough reformation to reform itself, to fix itself, so the Protestants had to break away.

That's Martin Luther.

So he's really an ex-monk.