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To: Rurudyne
No, the Protestant movement started because the RCC had gone off the rails.

And, since the protest movement subsequently went off the rails in a hundred different directions, we are left in the state of endless division with Christian sects splitting off ad infinitum along the lines of Zeno's dichotomy paradox. Great job, guys.
17 posted on 01/17/2020 10:18:41 AM PST by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: Antoninus

Men like to fight. When for the second time in thirty years (in 1767 IIRC) the Scottish Parliament had folks trying to respect an establishment of religion out of the Westminster Confession of Faith this political move not only caused bitter fighting among Scottish Presbyterians in Scotland it caused some vigorous infighting in this side of the pond at times and places that actually informed the 1st Amendment but were otherwise theologically trivial as a reason to fight.

As for actual theological issues, there’s always a remnant.

For a long time before our day the price to pay in society in the West was for not seeming to be a Christian. The unbelievers moved in, some went on to become priests or pastors and hold positions of leadership because, to borrow from Burke Breathed’s portrayal of an old fat Elvis turned road construction worker: where else could you get paid to do little more than stand around eating donuts?

(Remember, back in the day lawyers had yet to reach any sort of critical mass where the more you had the more you needed just to talk with other lawyers)

Now in these last of the last days those led astray now have their own places (buildings and all) to believe some stuff that sounds Christian without being converted. They are no more proper to lay at the feet of actual believers than a Catholic seminary overrun by homosexuals should be laid at the feet of other actual believers.


22 posted on 01/17/2020 10:58:28 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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