In 1517, a man wrote down his disagreements with the church and nailed it to the door. This one man was known as Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reformation, and his paper was the infamous 95 Theses. But why did he write this paper? Even though he was a Catholic Monk, Martin Luther did not believe several things that the church believed and disagreed with them about some of their practices. The main one was indulgences. This is where somebody buys their way out of Purgatory. The sacrament of confession erases the permanent consequences (going to hell) but something else must be done to remove the temporal punishment (doing a good deed). Instead of a good deed, the sinner could buy an indulgence, extra good deeds accumulated by the saints and Christ but were never used in their judgment. Martin Luther wanted the Catholic church to reform and ban several horrendous practices. That was the whole point of his 95 Theses.