[the invisib1e hand]

just the people involved and some of the man-created traditions were corrupt. Glaring strawman alert.

Soooooo he created a religion to counter the "man-made" religion.

coginitive-dissonance alert.

[driftdiver]

Luther didn’t create a religion.

[slowhandluke]

Cognitative dissonance? Only when somebody reads what I wrote and then your interpretation of what I said.

What did Luther create? And is the schism by Luther that much more egregious than the Roman/Orthodox differences?

"man-made" religion is your term, not mine.