luther was necessary as rome was operating an extortion racket and fuck that though i would argue that the catholic church actually became a lot worse with the counter reformation. enforcement of celibacy (where it wasn't before) turned it into a lavender mafia. heterosexual fornication is a relatively minor sin 1000 hetero whoremongers are better than one homosexual. the jesuits also got created and its the jesuits and not the jews behind leftism (humanism was the original leftism) and globalism (based on the manacial aspirations of certain popes like innocent iii who claimed they ruled the earth). any idea that the bishops assembled could overrule the pope (which would pave the way to reuniting with orthodoxy the true early church) went away. yes sales of indulgences stopped (mostly) but other evils replaced it.
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