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I like the parts about indulgences and purgatory - they're swell.

Whether or not you testify to their "swellness", you can't erase their truth.

And then there's that ugly thing called the inquisition; shhhh - be vewy vewy quiet - I'm hunting pwotestants.

The Inquisition wasn't in the business of hunting anyone, let alone Protestants. Especially since the Spanish Inquisition was founded 40 years before Martin Luther put up his flyer.

And, at one time, weren't there actually three Popes (one in France, one in Italy, and one appointed by another council)?

No, there was one legitimately elected Pope and two pretenders to the office.

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The Inquisition wasn't in the business of hunting anyone, let alone Protestants. Especially since the Spanish Inquisition was founded 40 years before Martin Luther put up his flyer.

"The first question ever asked by an Inquisitor of a "heretic" was whether he knew any part of the Bible in his own tongue. It was asked in 1233 of a man who belonged to a dissident religious sect known as the Waldensians, which emphasized bible study and lay preaching; and it would be asked again of thousands of others before the course of history would render its dark implications null and void." -- Wide as the Waters by Benson Bobrick, page 11, 2001.

Luther published his stuff in the 1500s.

What exactly was the inquisition about, if not hunting heretics? And what does it have to do with Martin Luther?