Today is Reformation Day, It has been 500 ,years to the day, since the day that Martin Luther posted the 95 arguments (95 Theses ) on the church door at Whittenberg Germany. Where does the time go? Luther had struggled with thoughts of how to be good enough to get into heaven for much of his young life to the point of becoming a monk and really abusing himself to prove repentance. It brought him no comfort, as he was never convinced that he had done enough. He was miserable. One of his superiors assigned him the task of studying the bible so he could teach it and he eventually concluded that much of what the Church taught was in error. Pergatory, and the selling of indulgences and the praying to the saints were all things that the Church condoned and used to reap money from the believers. That money went to fund the cathedrals and posh lifestyles of the high clergy . Luther posted arguments against the practices and hoped to get a debate going and hopefully reform the church from the top down. What he got was a death sentence from the pope that could be carried out by anyone who happened to see Luther at any time. Also People were inflamed at the thought of their church leaders misinforming them and taking advantage of them and went on a rampage, destroying churches, defacing artwork, toppling statues, ect. Luther was not part of the violence, he wanted only to correct the church from what it had become but it would not be corrected so there was revolution. That was the start of the reformation.