[Alex Murphy]

...so your question demonstrates an ignorance of Christianity.

And your answers demonstrate only a familiarity with cutting-and-pasting from Wikipedia/Answers.com. I look forward to you explaining to my Baptist friends (especially the "Independent" and "Fundamentalist" ones) how they're really Protestants with "firm roots in the Protestant Reformation initiated by Martin Luther's 95 Theses".

[AlaninSA]

Look, that's a common definition. I don't need to invest time in defining a commonly known (although widely denied by the prot/cults) fact.

[AlaninSA]

By the way: Main Entry: 1prot·es·tant Pronunciation: 'prä-t&s-t&nt, 2 is also pr&-'tes- Function: noun Etymology: Middle French, from Latin protestant-, protestans, present participle of protestari 1 capitalized a : any of a group of German princes and cities presenting a defense of freedom of conscience against an edict of the Diet of Spires in 1529 intended to suppress the Lutheran movement b : a member of any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, and the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth; broadly : a Christian not of a Catholic or Eastern church (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/protestant) Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1) - Cite This Source Prot‧es‧tant /ˈprɒtəstənt or, for 4, 6, prəˈtɛstənt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[prot-uh-stuhnt or, for 4, 6, pruh-tes-tuhnt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1. any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church. 2. an adherent of any of those Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group descended from them. 3. (originally) any of the German princes who protested against the decision of the Diet of Speyer in 1529, which had denounced the Reformation. 4. (lowercase) a person who protests. –adjective 5. belonging or pertaining to Protestants or their religion. 6. (lowercase) protesting. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/protestant