the enemy i wolves trying to pervert people away from scripture regardless of the tactics.
protestantism castrated almost a 1000 years of Christianity in Europe leaving it wide open for Islam.
even with the athiests in control of the government in the East, the Christians held out. even with millions of casualities as the soviets murdered Christians...
I was raised Roman Catholic, dropped away from the Catholic Church and became Methodist. Since then I became disillusioned with "mainstream" Protestant Churches - Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and some Baptists. They have become diluted with secular humanism, moral relativism and beliefs that stray from those of their own founding fathers.
But the problem is not so much with the individuals as the institutions. Even the Catholic Church as an institution has had problems. Even the Jewish Faith has problems keeping its followers orthodox. We all have problems.
But the real problem is that we as a cultural group are driffting away from basic scriptures and the foundation principles of Christianity - principles which all Christians originally followed but have become dliuted by cultural and moral relativism, secular humanism and poltical correctness.
Does God really care what date we celebrate Easter and Christmas? Does he care what secondary books we choose to include in our sacred books or not? Does he care if our rituals are in Greek, or Aramaic, or Latin or Old Church Slavonic? I don't think so.
I think Christians of all faith have FAR more in common with each other - and with Judaism - than we do with any other belief systems and more than we have differences.
Orthodox Jews and Christians both have their roots in the Old Testament. Jews believe the Messiah is coming. We believe He has come and will come again.
And that commonality is being threatened by a dangerous aggressive menace that should be dealt with in unison by us all as we would treat a man-eating tiger.