[Binghamton_native]

And just when I thought this thread was getting "kinder and gentler"...

[Conservative til I die]

And just when I thought this thread was getting "kinder and gentler"...

Um, what exactly do you think the word "Protestant" means? It described people protesting against Catholicism. What does the word anti-Catholicism mean? It means against Catholicism. Get the connection?

I mean, it's not as if even Protestants claim that Protestantism was some sort of completely new revelatory religion. Even they admit that the early Protestants were "reformers", hence the Reformation. They were trying to fix what was wrong with Catholicism