[Belteshazzar]

Also, per your statement: “The Protestantism of Luther is all but dead.”

Luther was not a Protestant. That is a pejorative label affixed later by ... ah ... a very large religious affiliation with its headquarters in a very famous southern European city.

Lutherans are not Protestants. Remember, there were two reformations, a first and conservative one, and then a second, radical one. The Lutherans (also, by the way, a pejorative term affixed by the same entity) are children of the first, the Methodists of the second.

[xzins]

I didn’t ask if you knew the confessions of Methodism, I was indicating that the movement is decreasing and not increasing.

Whatever.

Have a great evening.

[Campion]

Luther was not a Protestant. That is a pejorative label affixed later by ... ah ... a very large religious affiliation with its headquarters in a very famous southern European city.

Not quite. The "Protestants" were those who adhered to the "protestation", a petition to the Imperial Diet of Speyer in 1529. The purpose of the petition was to ask that the Imperial ban against Luther and Lutheranism be lifted.