[Thales Miletus]

We Prots would like a clarification of it; if it's not to much trouble.

Yet when asked for a reaction to news of a split in the Methodist faith you refuse to make a comment. This sounds a bit hypocritical.

[Elsie]

Yet when asked for a reaction to news of a split in the Methodist faith you refuse to make a comment. This sounds a bit hypocritical.

Perhaps hypocritical is the wrong descriptor.

Maybe folks just don't want to be bothered again.

[daniel1212]

Yet when asked for a reaction to news of a split in the Methodist faith you refuse to make a comment. This sounds a bit hypocritical.

That presumes that the Methodist faith represents the faith of the poster(?), while if your example is meant to impugn Protestantism, as defined by even its most fundamental distinctive, then you must show that this Methodist declension is a consequence of holding Scripture to be the supreme authority as the wholly inspired and accurate word of God. And likewise, that those who most strongly hold to the authority of Scripture, with its basic literal hermeneutic, would not be the most unified major religious group in basic conservative beliefs, in contrast to those Rome treats as members in life and in death.