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<blockquote data-quote="fr0st" data-source="post: 1306227" data-attributes="member: 17470">Luther broke away from Catholicism due to a handful of disagreements, one of the major ones was the Catholic practice of indulgences. To be fair, the Pope and leaders of the church at the time were extremely corrupt and were using the profits gained from selling indulgences to line their own pockets. Luther's translation of the Hebrew/Greek Bible into German and subsequent spreading of it to the laity is what first made the general public able to hear and read the word of god by themselves. Previously the only people who could read the bible where those that understood Latin, which meant it was only Priests themselves and wealthy scholars.About 200,000 Luther Bibles were printed before he died. They were still quite expensive (1 cost about a month's worth of wages). But it finally enabled towns to post verses of the bible in their own tongue. The Luther Bible also inspired the eventual English King James Bible that is so popular today.Due to how expensive a bible was at the time I don't think it's fair to give the printing press that much credit for the spreading of Lutheranism. There was a massive propaganda war on both sides (Luther and his allies vs. The Catholic Church). Eventually the Iconoclast movement happened during the reformation, although to their credit Lutherans in general did not agree with the destruction of the images/statues of christ and saints. This was mostly done by the Calvinists.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fr0st, post: 1306227, member: 17470"] Luther broke away from Catholicism due to a handful of disagreements, one of the major ones was the Catholic practice of indulgences. To be fair, the Pope and leaders of the church at the time were extremely corrupt and were using the profits gained from selling indulgences to line their own pockets. Luther's translation of the Hebrew/Greek Bible into German and subsequent spreading of it to the laity is what first made the general public able to hear and read the word of god by themselves. Previously the only people who could read the bible where those that understood Latin, which meant it was only Priests themselves and wealthy scholars. About 200,000 Luther Bibles were printed before he died. They were still quite expensive (1 cost about a month's worth of wages). But it finally enabled towns to post verses of the bible in their own tongue. The Luther Bible also inspired the eventual English King James Bible that is so popular today. Due to how expensive a bible was at the time I don't think it's fair to give the printing press that much credit for the spreading of Lutheranism. There was a massive propaganda war on both sides (Luther and his allies vs. The Catholic Church). Eventually the Iconoclast movement happened during the reformation, although to their credit Lutherans in general did not agree with the destruction of the images/statues of christ and saints. This was mostly done by the Calvinists. [/QUOTE]

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