An indulgence is essentially a 'get out of purgatory free card' that the Catholic Church sold, allowing people to buy remission of punishment for sins without having to suffer penance, which Luther saw as fundamentally inconsistent with Christian teaching
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“the idea that god judges people when they die sends them either to heaven or hell is supplemented by the idea that there's a purgatory... decided that it would be a good idea to sell indulgences so what that means is essentially that you could buy a get out of hell free card or get out of purgatory free card”
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