That's your brain on evangelical koolaid. The Church never insisted on not praying to God, quite the opposite actually, and asking saints for their backing of your pleas is not something illogical, so long as it's a righteous thing you ask for. The indulgences never were about sins, they were about penance bestowed onto those being confessed. To put it simple, you were allowed to earn some money with honest work or give away part of your own wealth as a form of penance, and the papers were proof that the penitent has successfully carried out what he had to. Luther was buttblasted because the Church refused to endorse his translation of the Bible, which was riddled with misinterpretations, and because he was a pussy snowflake who was too cool for the Fathers' and the Conventions' rules, literaly REEEE GRUG NO LIKE MANY WORDS. <|endoftext|> 