I must confess that my knowledge of christian history from 300AD to 1800AD is what you can get from a few paragraphs in middle school social studies.

I was trying to allude to the indulgences with my "bullshit" but I failed.

I tend to focus more on the great awakenings and all the horrible things they led to in how they influenced America.

I thought Protestants were also at some point very against the way the Catholic faith focused on "here's what god meant" rather than letting people interpret the bible themselves? Papal infallibility is just a part of that.