The first two Protestants were Adam and Eve. They decided to disobey God, were evicted from Eden, and made all our lives miserable.
Protestant #3 was Cain. He killed his own brother for being better and closer to God. Many beliefs are summed up by Protestant #3: “I hate people who obey God!”
“The Thousand Year Reign” of the Catholic Church over European and American Christendom ended when Luthers, Calvins, and Cranmers followed Cain’s example and attacked The Only Church Jesus Founded.
What was their motive? Revelation 20 is clear. After “The Thousand Year Reign”, had come to an end, “the dragon would be unchained from the abyss”. The “dragon” was the spirit driven to destroy and devour The Only Church Jesus Founded.
During dozens of generations of “The Thousand Year Reign”, many faithful Catholics had left property to The Church.
One third of Britain was owned by The Church. The King was brain-damaged by concussions from falling off his horse in full armor and landing on his head. He was easily led to replace his best advisors with venal men. Greedy men realized, “If we can get our greedy King to confiscate Church Property and give it to us, we can be billionaires!”
Soon, conniving counselors had transferred Church lands, monasteries, convents, farms, mines, and assets to themselves. They became the “New Billionaires”. Throughout Europe, vain, venal men realized: “We can get rich looting The Church!”
Protestant Imperialists justified theft and murder by inventing “theologies” that criminalized soul-saving Catholic practices, like Indulgences. They cut costs by costuming cooperating clergy in stolen Catholic vestments. Many who protested were killed. Their smaller properties were stolen to benefit local, lower-level Protestants! Most people preferred pretending that Protestantism was “just as good” to being killed and impoverished.
It is no surprise that Protestantism spread so quickly across many Catholic countries.