Eve of the ReformationBlack Death to Luthers Protest

There is a myth that since the time of the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity in 313 A.D. until the Reformation that the Catholic Church lived in relative peace. This myth is false; the Church was constantly under attack. Heresies, Islam, and other less organized pagans always had the Church busy fighting on the side of Truth. From 300 A.D. to 600 A.D., the Church was affected with the heresy of Arianism. The heresy caused many men and many clergy to be led astray. After the Church’s battle with Arianism, Mohammed and his new religion, Islam, rose to power and overwhelmed most of the Orient. Islam and Christianity were at war with each other since Islam’s creation up until the Reformation. Between battles with Islam, pagans from Scandinavia and Mongols from Asia tried to battle Christian Europe, but they were less organized and easily defeated.
Christian unity was incredibly strong for the first twelve hundred years of its existence because the Christians were al...