Do Catholics go back centuries to dig up dirt and make books and videos of the corruption of the so called "reformers"? You would be hard pressed to find any. I can play your game too.
The moral deficiencies of the original Protestant so-called "reformers" were the MOTIVE, for their apostasy. It was not merely that they were sinners. They were sinners who apostatized BECAUSE of their sins.
If Henry VIII did not want to divorce his sacramentally married wife, marry his chippie mistress, steal Church lands and use the money to pay off his personal debts, England would still be Catholic. Henry VIII made himself 'head of the Church" in England. He had more mistresses than wives and he killed several of those. He used his 'religious authority' to ignore the teaching of Our Lord and Savior on divorce and serve his own lusts. he was also guilty of greed, egoism, cruelty, murder, extortion, and irreligion.
If Martin Luther did not suffer from severe bipolar manic-depressant illness with frank psychosis during his periods of mania, he would never have invented a purely formal definition of 'righteousness' that was evacuated of all moral content and inspired millions of others to settle for a sub-Christian notion of discipleship…
Luther lived with his paramour for 1 1/2 years before marrying her. He was complicit in the bigamy of Philip of Hess. He encouraged gangs of thugs to invade convents and rape the nuns therein.
If Zwingli the priest had not been a sex crazed rogue who seduced the young women in his congregation... and frequented prostitutes...
If Calvin had not been an egomaniac who had murderous intent towards anyone who disagreed with him and in fact executed many people under horrendous conditions. he treated the Genevans so badly that they through him out of town, but in the social chaos that ensued they invited him back so he could use his form of dictatorial repression to stabilize the social disaster the 'reform' had created. And there are the credible charges of his own private vices.
If Knox had not been part of the assassination team that murdered Cardinal Beaton...
- Cranmer was Henry's foil to destroy the Church. He had a secret wife in Germany while he pretended to be a celibate priest.
All in all they were total moral reprobates and hypocrites. Forgive me for not finding them worthy to challenge Historic Christianity, especially when their false doctrines were at the service of their personal vices.
The faults of the so-called "reformers" are central to their apostasy.
To turn around and complain that some Catholics may not have been nice is besides the point. No matter how mean some of them were, they stayed in the Church. Jesus said that he had come to save sinners, not righteous people. In light of that, claiming that Catholics were sinners therefore someone needed to found a new Church makes no sense! Sinners need to be in THE Church and no other.
oh there's plenty of evidence BOL, it's just that you choose not to see it. Your preference in your evaluation process is to be selective.....selective in favour of your position to the point where blind spots are denied.
This is a lie. Catholics don't deny their have been corrupt popes centuries ago. Demonizing someone's beliefs the way you do is not from the Holy Spirit.
Anyway, the house of cards which the RCC has built and which you support,...... and that, claiming to be established on a rock when in fact it is on sand, will become evident to all at the appointed time.
If the CC was built on sand, it would have disappeared in the first century. We are still here, over a billion strong, in the face of constant resistance from the world. Mere human ingenuity cannot account for this.