I said their quirks and/or superstitions are much different from the pre-Reformation Church, not that the overall emphasis on intermediaries is much different from the Church of the past. I'm sorry if I was not clear.

If I remember right, Luther first objected to the selling of indulgences, and that prompted him to form a list of where the church differed from scripture. And then it all kind of exploded in his face -- he never meant for it to go the way it did.