[GonzoII]

“I wondered about the reference to Catholicism as opposed to Christianity.”
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Well, I think I would put it like this; as the saying goes, first things first, the Catholic Church is historically the first Christian religion, so we could say (I don't want to sound arrogant here) the Protestant religion benefited in a sense from the Catholic one, for example by the preservation of the Scriptures by the monks etc.

[Iscool]

Well, I think I would put it like this; as the saying goes, first things first, the Catholic Church is historically the first Christian religion

Only in Catholic history books...

, so we could say (I don't want to sound arrogant here) the Protestant religion benefited in a sense from the Catholic one, for example by the preservation of the Scriptures by the monks etc.

While the Catholic church may have preserved it's own version of the scriptures, the Protestant Reformation was based on bible manuscripts that were neither preserved by your church nor originated with your church...