No reason to go back 6-7 centuries, unless for some unknown reason present day Churchmen are held responsible for this. Are they?
Why not? Luther died in 1546. Poor Piccolomini (who was an excellent writer, BTW) passed away in 1464. If posters on this thread can try to make hay bashing long-dead Luther, why can't I exercise my polemic skills by bringing up the various peccadilloes and crimes of the long-deceased medieval Popes? What's good for the goose...
unless for some unknown reason present day Churchmen are held responsible for this. Are they?
No, but perhaps present-day practitioners of "apologetics" -- both RC and Reformed -- should be held responsible for their one-sided histories. It's just as false and misleading to say that Galileo was burned at the stake by "the Inquisition" (da-da-DUM!), a canard which I read on a thread earlier today, as it is to pretend that Martin Luther's anti-semitism and other personal errors were unique among his contemporaries (and ancestors) both inside and outside the RC Church.
So that means the Catholics will lay off Luther??
It’s okay for you guys to do the same to protestants though. Again, pot meet kettle.