[nobamanomore]

Most protestants only know what they are told to believe. You can’t blame them for that

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Most protestants only know what they are told to believe. You can’t blame them for that”

I agree, but at least they are being told the scriptures, as it should be.

In many churches, they are encouraged to individually read and study the Bible themselves.

[metmom]

Most protestants only know what they are told to believe. You can’t blame them for that

Most Christian pastors tell their congregation to check what they say by comparing it to Scripture and to NOT believe them just cause they say so.

Nobody is told to blindly believe that the church hierarchy decrees that they believe under threat of eternal damnation.

Thought control like that, dictating what people have to believe, is the mark of a cult.

[Elsie]

Most Catholics can 'believe' just about anything else as well as what they are told to believe.
They may as well be Unitarians.

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According to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, the era of public revelation ended with the death of the last living Apostle. A Marian apparition, if deemed genuine by Church authority, is treated as private revelation that may emphasize some facet of the received public revelation for a specific purpose, but it can never add anything new to the deposit of faith. The Church may pronounce an apparition as worthy of belief, but belief is never required by divine faith.^[4] The Holy See has officially confirmed the apparitions at Guadalupe, Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, Paris (Rue du Bac, Miraculous Medal), La Salette, Lourdes, Fátima, Pontmain, Beauraing, and Banneux.^[5]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_apparition