Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
None of those guys taught heresy or denied any of what had been taught as Truth ever since the Apostles were alive and teaching those who would fill their shoes, but Luther did because he chose to follow Eve rather than Jesus Christ. No Pope ever preached that following Eve was the same as following Jesus Christ, but Luther did and those who follow in his footsteps likewise preach that following Even and worshiping their own, Most High and Holy Self is the same as following Jesus Christ. Only people who worship their Self would throw out part of the Bible and then have the gall to mock Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, by claiming to believe in Scripture as His Word.
Luther’s didn’t bother with a few fingers, they dug up, hanged, drew, and quartered Cromwell who not so long before they had hailed as a great man of God. When they were done mutilating the corpse, not just setting it in a chair, they kept his head on a post for quite some time. Of course, Marty preferred encouraging the nobility to slaughter peasants who were following Luther’s own writings to messing with corpses.
Nepotism? Pffft. Mere nepotism is a faint shadow of rule by nobility who pass their titles on in their family for generations and Marty loved the nobility. He loved them so much he said that each noble should dictate what everyone in duchy or fiefdom would believe and that all religion should be subject to control by the State.
Spending 1/7 or even ½ of the reserves others have built up pales by comparison to the outright theft of lands and buildings the Church had owned, built and improved for centuries. But, Luther saw nothing wrong with the nobles stealing whatever they wanted to enrich their families and strengthen their control over the ignorant peasents he damned for interpreting Scripture for themselves instead of listening to him. Anyone who was a little concerned over such theft could just ask Marty if it’s Ok and Marty assured them it was. After all, there was none of that garbage about the Ten Commandments for Marty. Anything you thought might be a sin, Marty could excuse. Like stating that husbands or wives to could fornicate whenever they liked with whoever they liked if their spouse didn’t please them sexually.
Yeah, Marty exceeded all those guys by a long shot. So much so that good old Adolph Hitler praised him as a farsighted and wise German for knowing how evil the Jooooooz were.
Those Popes were corrupt sinners, but they were all pikers compared to good old heretic and liar Marty.
And compared to 7/8ths of the people who have followed in Marty's footsteps by throwing out part of the Bible.