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Why is it politically correct now-a-days to blame people now living for the crimes of past centuries? Do you, apparently a white guy living in the United States, feel personally responsible for the fact that the early Americans practiced slavery, or mistreated the Indians & stole their land? Are you going to give your house back to the Indians and move to Europe?
Acknowledgment is one thing, but should we apologize for things done by other people long dead who were obviously violating the very principles taught by Jesus?
But to directly address your question, Catholics keep telling us that Protestantism is not a legitimate branch of Christianity because we do not have "Apostolic secession".
This seems to imply, among other things, that we are disconnected from the leadership of the Roman Catholic church. Following that logic, I suppose that we cannot be held responsible for the Catholic church's "bloody" misdeeds, since even the Catholic leadership acknowledges that we have nothing to do with the official leadership of the Catholic church, now or ever.
So, I, as a Protestant, do not feel responsible for the Inquisition, or the Crusades, or anything else that happened before I was born, thank you.
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