“Judas,” Jesus said to him in the garden of Gethsemane, “would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” (Luke 24:48).
“Unfortunately, scandal is nothing new for the Church.
Martin Luther, an Augustinian priest, lived during the reign of perhaps the most notorious pope in history, Alexander VI. He had nine children from six different concubines. He put out contracts on the lives of those he considered his enemies.
Luther, like everyone, must have wondered how God could allow a wicked man to be the visible head of his Church. All types of moral problems confronted Luther even in his own country of Germany. Luther was scandalized, as anyone who loved God should have been. He allowed the scandal to drive him from the Church.”
Not exactly... Luther tried for YEARS to reform the Catholic church from the wickedness and debauchery its leaders had sunk to. In turn, he got threatened, persecuted, chased out of his home, pursued by kings, princes and clergy in order to execute him. It was when he was excommunicated for refusing to recant his thesis and preaching questioning the novel doctrines, depraved clergy and perverted gospel within the Roman Catholic church, that he finally left. The "scandal" was not remedied from within as it should have been and is why he, as well as thousands of others, left. They did not give up on their faith but chose to worship with those who also realized that the "fullness of the faith" could no longer be found with the leaders in Rome.