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Was the Medieval Church Corrupt or Following in Line in the Struggle of Good vs. Bad? A tale. A story. A reason. All in some way portray the validity of a subject. The people of the ancient world believing the world was flat justifies, to some respect, why Christopher Columbus set sail on the winds of discovery. Quite the same way the medieval church being corrupt justifies the success of Martin Luthers Reformation. By depicting the churches popes as power-hungry totalitarians who aided in the Holy Inquisition and stole money from poor people through tithes and indulgences one must assume that Luther and other “reformers” should gain credit for bringing the church back to the Old Testament mindset. The present day Roman-Catholic church being depicted with the same sight as the medieval church is merely a parallel of two separate entities, thus saying that though the evidence shows the Catholic Church as corrupt in the medieval time frame the same representation is not just today. Often the view of pop culture is manipulated into thinking so by today’s movies and educational backings. Being hard to disprove due to the abundance of text, from medieval fabliaux to Reformation rhetoric (polemics) and into historical