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To not see the impact of trusting one's own interpretation of a work that has spawned thousands of different denominations all claiming the Truth based upon "Scripture alone" is the blindness. Sola Scriptura is a recipe for chaos and splintering. It has reaped a windfall.

At first, the splintering was just the result of failed efforts to reform Catholicism, along with the inevitable dividing of earthly religion along political lines.

Now the problem is that every fool in the world sees religion as a get-rich-quick scheme.

Denominations are not so much caused by doctrinal differences as by adherence to charismatic founders. They are sustained by the different errant doctrines of their founders.

At first, the splintering was just the result of failed efforts to reform Catholicism, along with the inevitable dividing of earthly religion along political lines.

Inevitable, you say? It somehow resisted this inevitablity for 1500 years. That's remarkable.

The first splinter was a collosol overreaction to abuses in the Church, yes. But the very notion of each individual being essentially his own church, is the truly inevitable result of undermining the authority of the Church. It is inherent in the Protestant ideal, not in Catholicism.

Denominations are not so much caused by doctrinal differences as by adherence to charismatic founders.

And yet there are all these doctrinal differences anyway, inhibiting the reunion of all Christ's children. It is like herding cats to try to unite a people whose principal is that they are the final judge of Scripture.