 Priests themselves got upset with what they saw as corruption of the teachings of the bible  People could only read the bibles under church supervision

 In order to keep power the Church kept making more and more rules  Spain kicked all non-Christians out completely  Set up courts where people had to prove their faith or face extreme punishments

 Basically a religious court  The Goal is to “Save” people from going against the church  Used torture frequently to get people to go along with them and their goals  All it took to get sent to the inquisition is to have one person accuse you  Inquisition was not to find truth, but to get people to confess their guilt

 If you did not confess you could be burned at the stake  This was all done in the name of god

 The church became increasingly interested in getting rich  The pope spent TONS of money on his own entertainment  The church needed more then donations  They came up with new ways of making money, like charging for baptisms!

 Priests made quite a bit of money and did not have to pay taxes  Church made money by letting people pay to be priests  This leads to some priests not knowing very much about the bible

 The church added the concept of Purgatory (not in the bible)  Taught that when you died you went to an in-between place to work off sin before going to heaven  The church then sold Indulgences, passes to shorten your time in Purgatory  People see this as “tickets to heaven”