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Just because everyone can read physics doesn't mean everyone will understand it. It is the ultimate arrogance of human pride to say that we should not look for someone to tell us what to think. No one is trying to tell you what to think, but how to think. And, by yourself, you have no way of knowing if what you think is what you should be thinking. The Bible is not the sole source of knowledge of the faith, but a part of the collective knowledge known as the Holy Tradition. The Bible and the Holy Tradition are not in conflict but in concert.

Touché

It's kind of ironic that certain Protestants would even bother with seminaries. Heaven forbid an educated man tell an uneducated man what to think.

Also, it strikes me as rather self-contradicting to tell another man, "don't let others tell you what to think." I mean, really.

It's been my experience that those who push the do-it-yourself approach tend to harbor a belief already denounced as heresy by the Church.

Feel up to a game of "Spot the Modalist?"

If anyone is not practicing what they preach -- the Protestants lead the way!

First of all, for people who are not supposed to tell others what to think they write more Gospel interpreting books than any other Christian group. What is a book but telling people someone's opinion, and trying to gain their approval?

Second, they don't just read the Bible. They INTERPRET it. What they call a "church" (and I am talking about non-liturgical Protestants), is basically a sermon -- and a show. The preacher gets on the stage and starts telling you what is what and who is who. he doesn't say "The Lord says 'Be therefore perfect...'", they interpret what that means for the audience -- and sometimes it's thousands of people in an auditorium or even a football stadium. No one is talking to himself and interpreting; all they do is wave their hands and say "Amen." Talk about brainwashing!, while saying that each man is a pope. What a joke.

Third, how did the illiterate masses "read" the Bible of Luther's day? They didn't. It didn't matter if it was in Latin or in German. The Germans couldn't read, save for the noble and small middle class.

So sola scriptura was shoved down everyone's throat at the pleasure of the minister who held the key to God's words by being the literate among the illiterate.

Protestant message is "I don't need anyone; I just need a Bible." Yet they are the ones who make the largest congregations!

Also, it strikes me as rather self-contradicting to tell another man, "don't let others tell you what to think." I mean, really

Of course, but they don't see their own folly.