[who_would_fardels_bear]

One word Protestants don't understand: Arianism

That's the religion most Europeans might have been practicing if there hadn't been a strong, centralized church holding the fort for Christianity.

Take away dat ole' debbil the Catholic "whore of babylon" Church and you have small groups of committed, "bible"-believing, on-fire-for-the-Lord congregations that generate hundreds or thousands of different "scriptures" and are snuffed out one-by-one by hoards of arians, monophysites, nestorians, pelagians, etc.

[Resettozero]

That's the religion most Europeans might have been practicing if there hadn't been a strong, centralized church holding the fort for Christianity.

That's one scenario that didn't happen. There may be others that did not happen either. "Might" is a very large word in your quoted fiction.

(BTW, you've learned incorrectly about the Church that The Lord Jesus Christ founded on Himself...and about the degree of danger Arianism posed to that Church, not to be confused with the Roman Catholic church.)

G. K. Chesterton, eh?

[RnMomof7]

One word Protestants don't understand: Arianism

A heresy that arose under those "infallible" church fathers

The solution to the heresy's was not "the church"it was the scriptures .. Many of those early heresies still pop up today in many cults

[redleghunter]

That's the religion most Europeans might have been practicing if there hadn't been a strong, centralized church holding the fort for Christianity.

Dont' you think the Holy Spirit had something to do with warding off heresies? Sounds to me you are applying some deism here.