[kawaii]

POT...CALLING...KETTLE...BLACK

Um it's a fact that the reformers by and large advanced their cause only by courting the powerful. Luther used politcally motivated nobles to advance his cause, the King of England invented the Anglican church. etc.

[HarleyD]

Um it's a fact that the reformers by and large advanced their cause only by courting the powerful.

And the Church didn't???? The Church and politics at the time were intertwine. Luther's rebellion against the Church cast him into the world of politics. The Church, otoh, was cast into the world of religion.