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That’s a myth. I don’t understand why Protestants continue to believe them. Maybe they’re afraid of becoming Catholic like I did.

Most people couldn’t even read. Luther’s translation of the Bible was so corrupted that the Protestant Church in Germany later discarded it because it wasn’t even a real translation.

Luther added the word “alein” in Romans when it’s not present in the Greek. Not to mention, he dropped James, Jude, Hebrews, and Revelation from his translation and called them “apocryphal.”

Do you think these books are apocryphal? Luther thought they were.

The selling of indulgences is a canard, considering it was banned by the Council of Trent.

The Church needed genuine reform, not a revolution.

We don’t have the Church alone to blame for the Protestant Revolution because a lot of kings and princes saw Protestantism as a convenient way to get out of paying taxes.

Protestantism amounted to the rejection of the Church that Christ founded and the founding of a new religion outside of the Body of Christ, which is the Catholic Church.

The notion of private interpretation of scripture paved the way for the Enlightenment and the decline of Christianity in Western civilization.

CS Lewis’s friend Hilaire Belloc observes in his book Great Heresies (http://www.ewtn.com/library/doctrine/heresy.htm):
It is of first importance to appreciate this historical truth. Only a few of the most bitter or ardent Reformers set out to destroy Catholicism as a separate existing thing of which they were conscious and which they hated. Still less did most of the Reformers set out to erect some other united counter-religion.

They set out (as they themselves put it and as it had been put for a century and a half before the great upheaval) “to reform.” They professed to purify the Church and restore it to its original virtues of directness and simplicity. They professed in their various ways (and the various groups of them differed in almost everything except their increasing reaction against unity) to get rid of excrescences, superstitions and historical falsehoods-of which, heaven knows, there was a multitude for them to attack.

On the other side, during this period of the Reformation, the defence of orthodoxy was occupied, not so much in destroying a specific thing (such as the spirit of Protestantism is today), as in restoring unity. For at least sixty years, even on to eighty years-more than the full active lifetime of even a long-lived man-the two forces at work, Reform and Conservatism, were of this nature: interlocked, each affecting the other and each hoping to become universal at last.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/doctrine/heresy.htm