[HarleyD]

Not pretty, but at least a little bit more balanced.

"It cannot be doubted that the majority of this clerical proletariat had neither the intellectual nor the moral capacity to so much as guess the profundity of the questions raised by Luther, let alone fully to realize the gravity of the challenge and to counter it with an adequate response."

Balanced?!? Indeed. ;O)

I do appreciate the post btw. There isn't anything in this that contradicts my posts except perhaps the downplay of three Popes.

[markomalley]

Facts are facts, Harley. What one does with those facts is what makes all the difference. One can either take those facts and work for reform (as was done through the Council of Trent, and other acts of those times), or one can throw Christianity out the window, along with the abuses (as what happened in the Protestant schism). The correct path to take is reform of the Church, rather than promulgating further schism.

Harley, if you were to ever ask me, I have always said that Luther brought out some very important issues. But those issues needed to be, and were, fixed within the Church.

But keep reading future installments, though, and I'm sure you'll see what I mean.