[metmom]

The reason you cannot fathom the Church as a single person is because the Protestant communities of faith are definitionally diverse, -- and therefore are not church in the sense the word is used in its singular form in the Gospel (it is also used in the sense of "local church" allowing for plural), and by Catholics. This si not to say that there are no diversity at all in the Catholic Church: there are legitimate areas left for the individual mind, and there is a vast array of legitimate liturgical and monastioc practices. But we have doctrinal unity because Christ taught a single doctrine. We have it. You don't.

Well, I see that it's OK for Catholics to have individuality in their church but not for others.

Non-Catholics are regularly castigated for YOPIOS, and other perceived doctrinal differences when really the issues are primarily in disputable matters, not the core belief in salvation by faith alone in Christ alone.

When Protestants allow for individuality, it's a sign of the problems inherent in Protestantism, we're shredded for our alleged 30,000 different denominations, and yet Catholics laud the Catholic church for the very thing they condemn in others.

For the Catholic church it's *diversity* and *legitimate* when individuality is expressed, a sign of strength. For non-Catholics, it's *fragmentation* and *disunity*, a sign of weakness.

Catholic double standards are so transparent.

[Quix]

[Roman] Catholic double standards are so transparent.

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INDEED . . . and silly, clueless, rubber history’d, rubber Bible’d . . .

[annalex]

When Protestants allow for individuality, it's a sign of the problems inherent in Protestantism, we're shredded for our alleged 30,000 different denominations, and yet Catholics laud the Catholic church for the very thing they condemn in others.

Diversity of practice is good. It is also good among the Protestants. Diversity of doctrine is a sign of traditions of men, not a good thing. It is true that "the core belief in salvation by faith alone in Christ alone" is common to all Protestants, but that is not the fullness of faith, nor is it an agreement with your own Bible Alone since it is not to be found, and is directly controverted, by the Bible in the second half of James 2.

You have, for example, a serious division between the Armenians and the Calvinists, the High Church and the Low Church, and even in how you interpret your cardinal error of Faith Alone. On occasion, for example, I come across posts that could be validly made by a Catholic, on the other hand, posts grossly discordant with the Scripture. Interestingly, when I adress the latter, I am told that in fact I shoudl not generalize about all Protestants. Is it not then a sign of doctrinal disunity among the Protestants?