When Martin Luther became a friar for the Roman Catholic Church, he aspired to achieve religious sanctity and receive the peace that he believed could only come from a pious life. While in the midst of his spiritual journey, he found that, though he followed carefully the strict guidelines of the Catholic Church, his spiritual thirst was not quenched and the Roman Catholic religion did not satisfy. He then took it in his own hands to analyze the Church for its wrongs and begin a new, corrected, version of what he saw as the true religion. He then called this new, reformed version of Christianity, Lutheranism the spread of which caused the Catholic church to retaliate with its own reformation. The revisions made in these two religions left them at odds on certain subjects, but there are still countless parallels between the two.

From its formation, the Roman...