I cannot state the following without first telling that I, myself, have fallen to liberal protestantism.
The sharp divide 3 plus decades ago was the advantage Satan needed to introduce abortion into America. The devil used our culture to popularize hedonism and infanticide on a global scale.
I asked a non-Catholic preacher about the presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. He exclaimed that his bread and non-alcoholic juice beverage did not have the presence of Christ. I agreed that he was correct. Jesus is not present at his worship. But, I'm sure the Holy Spirit is with him and his flock and urging their hungry hearts to the presence of Christ in the Sacramental Life. I know that the Holy Spirit works through such studious Christians because Jesus promised it so via the Beatitudes: Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for knowlege...
In reference to:
"Liberalism is a Sin" by Dr. Don Felix Sarda Y Salvany
http://www.liberalismisasin.com/
Satan takes advantage of our pride. The architect of the protesting will against Spiritual Authority is the same creature that influenced Adam and Eve's fall from Grace. If today's Christians refuse or are ashamed of the "Protestant" label, it's justifiably so. The wicked spirit that blindly rejects Spiritual Authority is the same spirit that rebels against Natural Authority. If a conscience can willful object to Jesus' appointing a man who's spent his entire life devoted to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, then how much easier is it to reject the practical God-given authority of a young father and mother? The spirit that rejects the reason and Faith of True Authority will endeavor to devour a soul and influence individuals to reject ALL authority.
But "Protestants" had children, and that's how the parents became "Christian". A youth may pretend to know everything until they're kicked out of the nest. Then the young adult realizes what geniuses his parents are. And when the young adult has children of their own, they might be wise enough to wonder how miraculous it was that the grandparents of his kids were able to survive at all.
"Protestant" is as dirty a name as "Soviet". The more modern Russian leaders neglect the abuse of the old Soviet system, the more Poland and Eastern Europeans will remind the world of how truly despicable the Stalinists' abominations were. Likewise, History is replete of Protestant errors. Yes, there's corruption in any human institution (as the Vatican knows corruption and internal rebellion). But the Protestant Heresy spawned or encouraged the worst atrocities of the last 100 years. Without Protestantism, there would never have been Communism, Fascist Socialism, or Liberalism.
Blasphemously rejecting the presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist opened the intellectual wound to rejecting the presence of Human Life in the womb. Abortion in a "Christian" culture could not have happened without the Protestant Revolt. The abomination came in degrees: state licensed marriages, divorce, and contraception. The horror of abomination happened only when the fruit of this disobedience is ripe to fall: homosexual "marriage", abortion, pop or political science/psychology bent on satiating human desires, and absolute enslavement of the will against the Fruit of Life.
In the American Presidential Election of 2004, the Holy Eucharist proved its Power. Jesus Christ is truly with us. He has never left. Sinners are the ones who leave the presence of Christ, yet, He Reconciles us back to Him.
There is no "orthodox" Protestantism. It's a spirit of rebellion. If orthodox non-Catholic Christians are so attracted to today's Papal leadership, it might be because the Holy Spirit has never allowed a Pontiff to stray from instructing on the Teachings of Christ. Yes, there have been anti-popes, but there have also been bad preachers and Pharisees too. God's Divine Mercy will heal the wounded souls to Reconcile us back into his Grace. History and private Revelation proves the presence of the Holy Trinity with the Roman Catholic Popes for better or worse among our fragile human leadership.
Right, and in the election of "04 the Roman Catholic was the pro abort, pro- homo libertine Candidate
America was founded by Bible reading " Christians".
Aside from the state of "Mary"land, the ethos of the founding was purely Biblical Christianity.
You are over the edge, and I would hope that the sensible Roman Catholics here would rebuke you for extremism.
What a load of biggoted crock.
Lenin and Stalin, had Eastern Orthodox ancestry (and Mao?), and Musollini and Hitler were both baptised Roman Catholics (and never excommunicated...).
"Liberalism" has such a broad meaning, it cannot be quantified, as to its founders--but in the classical meaning yes, it did engender the United States of America, WITH OUR FREEDOM OF RELIGION (unavailable in any Roman Catholic country until the USA). So yes, freedom has made Protestant denominations possible, and yes, did come out of Protestant traditions.