My question on "why bring up this mess" wasn't meant to imply that history is unimportant! Far from me to even suggest such a thing!!! It has brought me to Catholicism. But this post is not "history" as one would expect to find in a scholarly post or site. It is quite simply a biased, one-sided version that jokingly condemns the buffoon Church and applauds the Church-burning Protestants who were doing God's will...
Such "types" of history are not convincing to the "fence-sitter", nor are they conducive to any sort of ecumenical movement. They merely entrench the Protestant in their division - a work of the devil, as Paul would say.
Regards