There are two major Churches in Christianity today.  They are the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.  In the mediaeval times, the Roman Catholic Church was so powerful; it could influence political decisions like excommunicating emperors and kings, as well as call for a holy crusade to liberate the holy kingdom of Jerusalem from the infidel in the shape of Saracens. 

One has to understand that this motive might have been religious, because that was the excuse used that the main underlying motive was to plunder the riches of the East.  And the Church and the aristocracy knew it.  Nevertheless, the garb of a holy crusade was enough to make many people join the Crusades, and that included 10,000 young men and women from England who zealously decided to follow a bishop and liberate the land of their Lord.  Only about 600 people managed to reach Jerusalem, because not only were they ill-prepared, but they did not know anything about warfare. 

Nevertheless, in the middle Ages, the Church had reached a stage of ascendancy upon the mind and psyches of the common people that they did not dare to do anything that was not permitted by the Church. Any transgression would mean burning in the fires of hell.  Then the Church decided that they had the power to forgive the sins of sinners, if a sum of money was paid to the church. 

This large amount of money was beyond the capacities of the common people and that is why a sort of disillusionment against the Church began to grow.  Martin Luther King decided to protest against such an injustice and published some document, which held the Bible as the supreme religious authority for Christians.  He also said that religious belief, meant faith.  The Roman Catholic Church did not accept this belief.  Henry VIII, who was a Roman Catholic, turned England towards Protestantism, when he broke away from the Roman Catholic Church.

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