That is a rude, incorrect, snide and argumentative statement.
"Most Protestants" are Christians who seek to follow Christ, to pick up His cross and emulate His walk because Scripture tells us that is exactly what God demands from us. Do you doubt that?
And it also tells us to kneel to none but Christ.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." -- Matthew 15:8-9"This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
You forgot humble. Our Lord was so humble He would have been called a "pushover" if He lived in our macho culture today. He never resisted. He taught us not to return evil with evil; not to resist evil. He was what many of our conservative Christians would call a "pacifist." most conservative Evangelical Christians are anything even close to that.
The quotes you give refer to the Jewish traditions. Equating a 2,000 year-old Church dedicated to Christ's teaching based on Scriptures, to something idolatrous, implying that the Curch is a bees nest of false teaching, of sinister distoritons of the Word of God, of ignorance (!), of "traditions of men," etc., as most Protestants do, is not "rude, snide, [and] argumentative?"
I am sorry if I have no respect for your type of Christianity. Certainly there is no law saying I have to respect a man-made religious assembly just because you say you believe in Jesus Christ. Later Day Saints do too. Why do I have to believe you personally, and not the collective wisdom of the Church of the last two millennia? I put my wager on the Church, not on individuals.
well, many/some Protestants can be smung that they are part of an "elect" so don't need to emulate Christ since they're already chosen to go to heaven.