the rcc is hardly blameless regarding sowing discord among christians.
wanting bibles that people could read in their own languages brought anathemas and death. wanting services that people’could understand in their own language, ditto. wanting reforms that would get away from unbiblical sinful practices and the overwhelming legalism that the lay man couldn’t rebuke b/c they didn’t know latin and couldn’t defend themself with God’s Word b/c it was deliberately kept from them, ditto.
the rcc kept the laity uneducated and in the dark and totally dependent on them, on purpose. God’s Word is for everyone not just clergy. the laity were slaves. can’t teach them latin. can’t let’themhave bibles they can read’in their language. can’t have a service they could actually understand in their own tongue. gotta keep the peasants down under our thumbs. under our crushing legalism.
Protestant mythology. The very reason the Latin Vulgate was produced is because Latin was the vernacular in the West. There were numerous translations of the Bible before Luther or the King James. What was objected to were mistranslations. Even Luther admitted that he added "alone" to the phrase "by faith alone" in Romans.
wanting services that people’could understand in their own language, ditto.
Which is why, I guess, that the Church promoted the use of hand Missals with a vernacular translation of the Mass. Not very smart if you do not want anyone to understand the liturgy.
the rcc kept the laity uneducated and in the dark and totally dependent on them, on purpose.
Again, which is why, I guess, the Catholic Church established all those great universities during the Middle Ages. Rather than trying to keep anyone uneducated the Church was the only institution that preserved education during the Middle Ages. The various colleges at Oxford and Cambridge were originally founded as institutions to support the poor attending those universities.