[ansel12]

More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation.

That is a history answer, not a Christian answer, it helps for people to know history but Martin Luther is not a biblical figure, or a holy figure, he is a historical figure.

[Vigilanteman]

Martin Luther was not the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. Early reformers like Jan Hus predated Martin Luther by a century or more. Martin Luther was just the first one to get away with it.

State religions were a bad idea then just like the state religion of politically correct agnosticism is a bad idea now.

[magslinger]

Most Americans think that Martin Luther was a twentieth century American. They don’t know about the German religious reformer Reverend King was named for and that beside his religious reforms, the German Martin Luther is probably the second most important person after Gutenberg in the rising literacy of that era. Luther pushed for the Bible to be translated into the language of the people and translated it into German himself.