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By the way, I did scan your links. I recognized them as a historical summary of islamic conquest. This should be must reading for all muslims, but especially all children in the United States. Islam is not peace - it is violence and death. While many nominal muslims are peaceful, I believe up to about 20% are of the radical violent sort and they are the TRUE faithful of islam, i.e. the fundamentalists.

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Thank you for the reply. I think many people share a misunderstanding of what indulgences are and what they encompass.

An indulgence is is a removal of all or some of the punishment due to already forgiven sin because of the performance of a good deed or the saying of a prayer.

This is an issue Luther used against the Catholic Church in his 95 Theses. Specifically, because the Pope had granted a plenary indulgence to those who would donate money toward the building of the Vatican [St. Peter's]. Then as now, many didn't understand the teaching and believed Luther when he falsely accused of us "selling" the indulgence to gain access to heaven.

I disagree with Luther's view and condemnation of indulgences. He said that we could never do anything to remove the punishment we deserved. I believe God is loving and merciful to those who repent with a sincere heart.

Thanks for scanning my links.