...After going through a blender...
The reformation (deformation) was the blender. And it came much later.
This is actually an excellent metaphor - Catholic doctrine was came first (1,500 years) and was the ingredient placed in the reformation blender. After such blending mush and error was produced.
Strange how it produced the COUNTER Reformation in the Roman Catholic Church; isn't it?
Why do no Catholics EVER seem to admit it was the excesses and SIN in the Catholic leadership that CAUSED the Reformers to appear?