[Mr Rogers]

Yes, the pure Church founded alone by Jesus Christ somehow had started selling indulgences. Under pressure during the Reformation, it stopped selling them for cash.

It still teaches them, although, again, the whole idea seems to have been left out of Jesus’ teaching.

It is possible to have a serious and respectful discussion of the differences between us - but not on a thread that lumps Methodists, Lutherans, Baptists, Mormons and ‘Christian Scientists’ together.

[Cronos]

Yes, the pure Church founded alone by Jesus Christ somehow had started selling indulgences

Yup, it made mistakes -- but as a community formed by Christ himself, it survived that just like it's survived other things in 2000 years. There were earlier reforms done remember st. Francis? The fact that The Church survives DESPITE some really wrong people at the helm indicates that it has God's favor. All the breakaway sects that came have decayed and withered away.

[Cronos]

Methodists, Lutherans, Baptists, Mormons and ‘Christian Scientists’ together.

To me the only separating groups in that are Lutherans who do follow Apostolic succession, the second are the Methodists who seem to be Anglicans with a different spin while I would lump Baptists, Christian scientists together -- and Mormons are the final culmination (along with JW's and unitarians) of the Protestant idea of "I don't like the way you eat eggs, let's break this 'church'"