the way we were taught about protestantism in catholic school was basically: there was christianity and the catholic church in the beginning and then in the middle ages a bunch of PRICKS just decided to invent their own bullshit version of christianity based on whatever they wanted because Henry VIII wanted to fuck some more whores and it caused all kinds of nonsense, the end.

i didn't even know there was a counter-narrative by protestants themselves until i was out of my teens