that's really kind of funny when you think about it....for one thousand six hundred years Christians pretty much shared the same beliefs...then suddenly, in the 1600's mankind was enlightened and determined what were the falsehoods, blasphemies, and errors that the church had been teaching. How lucky can we be that protestants decided to rewrite history, eliminate all those false books from the bible, reinterpret tradition and set us on the right road at last......O.K. I guess...
Already by 90AD most of them were already told they were at risk of being sent to hell. Catholicism simply expanded on the errors of those "christians". If you think number of years impresses true believers think again.