[livius]

Protestantism is, unfortunately, something that will inevitably shatter into a million pieces. Each person picks the thing that he likes best and makes it the keystone of his faith. If he’s a powerful and convincing person, then he gets others to go along, and soon this fragment of the truth has been exalted as being the Truth itself. And then somebody else finds a fragment of the truth he likes better...and so forth.

When we talk about the destruction of unity, we’re not talking about merely the destruction of an external, formal unity, but about the destruction of the unity of doctrine. And that is the fundamental problem of Protestantism and the theory behind it (and behind any and all of its multitude of spin-offs and spin-offs of spin-offs).

[annalex]

What you and the author describe comes naturally to the modern mind. We simply don’t see any problem in endless diversity of opinion, which the democratic process integrates into a self-contradictory whole. However, this is no way to do Christianity, which has a single sacred source.

[LiteKeeper]

You have succumbed to a common myth about Protestantism. It is not "every man for himself." There is a long record of agreement on orthodoxy (vs orthopraxy).

I would venture to say that there is not as much unity in Roman Catholicism as a lot would like to believe.

[LiteKeeper]

You have succumbed to a common myth about Protestantism. It is not "every man for himself." There is a long record of agreement on orthodoxy (vs orthopraxy).

I would venture to say that there is not as much unity in Roman Catholicism as a lot would like to believe.