... The medieval church being corrupt in its institutional state groups one thousand years of church history as a whole disregarding any and all forms of historical development and in a completely random act dubs the title "medieval" to all. Leo X, who excommunicated Luther, is often considered more of a Renaissance prince than a medieval pope and Luther's ideals have, in recent times ... church being corrupt as well as a totalitarian, intolerant, and even murderous institution is the persistent but often misrepresented medieval Inquisition. A distinguished Protestant scholar by the name of ...

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