"A straw man?"
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so? what's your point?
Do you mind pointing out one institution in history that didn't have to deal with politics or corruption?
With the exception of the reactionary Protestant fundamentalists, mainstream Protestantism ceased to be Christian in any sense two or three centuries ago.
Protestants turn every man or woman into their own Pope.