Protestantism versus CatholicismCatholicism was the religion of ancient Rome. In Rome, there was no separation of church and state like in the United States. The Pope was primarily responsible for the Roman people. Martin Luther was at the monastery, but he began to see some faults in the Catholic Church. Martin Luther believed that some things taught by the Catholic Church were not morally correct. He then went to preach a different religion called Protestantism; this caused a big problem between him and the Pope. Roman Catholicism and Martin Luther's Protestantism have moral differences, differences in religious beliefs, and have caused many conflicts. Martin Luther realized morally that there were many problems with the Catholic Church. On the one hand, it was wrong that only people high in the Church could read the Scriptures. He believed that everyone should be able to understand and interpret it for themselves; that's why he translated it from Latin to German while he was living in Germany because his life was in danger. He also did not agree with celibacy and married a former nun. For him, a great moral conflict lay in the fact that the Catholic Church sold indulgences in place of sin. In his words, “Christians must learn that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy is doing a better deed than he who buys indulgences. » This was a dominant practice in the Church and they used indulgences to make the Church extravagantly beautiful. Roman Catholicism and Protestantism have many differences in religious beliefs. A major difference is that Catholics believe that if you sin, you can pay indulgences to the Church to help you avoid purgatory. However, Luther disagreed with this, he believed, "salvation was by faith rather than by works and by denouncing the indulgence-selling practices of the Church." He did not think it was necessary for the pope, priests, saints or Mary to intervene and that everyone could have their own personal relationship with Christ. Martin Luther states: “The Bible is the only authority for Christians. All of this infuriated the Catholic Church and caused it to excommunicate Luther from the Church. They claimed: “He has committed heresy against the Church which could be punished by death.” » Even though Luther felt like he was right, that doesn't mean it didn't cause a lot of conflict, not just between him and the Roman Catholic Church. , but also for Western European culture in general.