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Not a bad track record out of more than 250.

Oh?

Out of that gaggle grew the PROTEST movement that foment the RCC's Counter Revolution.

Doncha kinda wish that had NEVER happened?

79 posted on 08/16/2013 2:37:14 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Well, it was a little more complicated than that. Charles V decided that he wanted to rule Germany (the Holy Roman Empire) rather than just reign. Plus he has incurred the wrath of Francis I and the jealousy of Henry VIII by outbidding them for the German throne. Plus they were not happy about the gold that was leaving the country for Rome, primarily for a new Crusade but which was being used to build churches in Rome, and to protect the papal states from the other Italian princes. Luther’s reforms were a useful tool for princes in their resistance to the Kaiser and to the papal taxation.

111 posted on 08/16/2013 8:50:22 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)