Originally posted by HarryW
The Protestant religion is named after the protest of many people involved in the church around the early 1500s. One of the main guys to start it off was a German named Martin Luther. The protest was about corruption in the catholic church. Basically a big divergence of opinion in the way the church was run happened, and the Protestant Reformation happened because of it. It had a lot to do with the protestants objecting to the church selling 'indulgences' - basically selling God's forgiveness.

If you look it up on the internet you're bound to find everything you could ever want to know about it.
Is that the same Luther that began the Lutheran Church, and translated the bible into German?