“Like getting rid of everything that might slow the modern man down on his way to Sunday football: confession, fasting, monastic life, undissoluble marriage, abhorrence of contraception, weekly Mass...”
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Wrong. Bible-believing Christian follow the Scriptures as their one rule of life.
There are plenty of half hearted Protestants whose religion is just for show - just like there are multitudes of Catholics who go to church once a year.
Put your money where your mouth is. Show how historic evangelical or protestant Christianity is “easy” in a negative sense.
We can fling half hearted and liberal examples at each other all day.
I did not mean to say that all Protestants have it easy, — but I did enumerate things that the Catholics are supposed to obey, and the Protestants do not have a similar requirement.
All those divisions sure don't argue for their commitment to tough it out...