Really? Do you have a confessional statement to go along with that accusation? Westminster? SBC's Baptist faith and message? Augsburg Confession?
Perhaps you have youtube video's of various church members stating such a belief?
Didn’t think so.
Exo 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Now that’s a problem for you, because your charge is so specific that to prove it true, you would have to have either 1) concrete documentation, or 2) the capacity to read minds and see into human souls, which I believe is reserved to the Almighty. I for one reject your claim as spurious and unprovable. It is a lie until proven, and if not proven, it is a violation of the foregoing commandment.
What you are posting is not truth, not even good history, but a self-serving theory, and as we still live in a free country you are entitled to your own theory, but not to your own facts. You are engaged in a causal fallacy. As I pointed out to you before, it is Aquinas and his effort to absorb Aristotle into the Church that played a key role in opening the door to the self-worshipping autonomy of the Enlightenment. Not that he intended such a result, but it is difficult to deny the demonstrated consequences of his elevation of reason above its humble Augustinian station.
I recommend a book to you, by Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There. It provides a good outline of this development of autonomy, all the way from the beginning of church history, through Aquinas, and into the modern era. You can understand very little of how we got where we are without taking in a wider universe of facts. It is unhelpful to just keep firing off the same tired old polemic against people who love to know and obey what God has told us in His word.
Protestants are protesters, yes, but against what? The unity of Christian belief? Never! The authority of the Sovereign God? Never! We wage our protest against secular humanism in all its forms, without partiality, whether it appears in Caesar’s hubris, or Rome’s hubris, or the hubris of the postmodern spirit that denies all law but itself. By that measure, all true Catholics are necessarily Protestants:
Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another. [18] If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. [19] If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
And who promotes hatred of those who love God and His word? Schismatics. This is why I am careful on these forums never to make a charge which I would not be willing to defend in the court of Heaven. That principle has forced me more than once to back down from my initial impulses and consider whether I could back up my charges with evidence that would survive divine inspection. Because someday I may indeed be challenged by that Higher Court to support my claims against fellow believers, and I would not want to be found standing next to the Accuser of the Brethren on that day.
Just sayin …
Peace,
SR
Lambeth Confession