The only game that is being played is the one that claims Protestant moral superiority in the European power politics of the day. For the pretense of reform to be valid the reformers would have to have broken from the practices they supposedly left behind. Clearly not the case.
As with all human institutions we will not have better institutions until we have better men and women. Neither side has exclusive ownership of purity or evil intention. That does not in anyway diminish the God they both claim to worship, but themselves.
Sensible response ... at last. There is little point in playing “gotcha” with sinful humanity. Everyone is going to get got. The Reformation had the impact it had and continues to have because it was chiefly about doctrine and not about morals. Discussion is best kept to doctrine, in my opinion.
So, good. Maybe we can forgo play gotcha for a while. (I have no hope that it has permanently disappeared from FR, or anywhere else.)