‘”Watered-down Christianity” = Protestantism, no requirements at all, none.’
God puts the same requirements on all Christians, there are no special rules just for some of us.
1. Catholics must attend Sunday Masses EVERY week.
Protestants NEVER have to attend any Sunday service.
2. Catholics must attend Mass on "holy days of obligation" (Christmas, Assumption, etc.).
Protestants NEVER have to attend any of these services.
3. Catholics must receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation at least twice a year.
Protestants don't have this Sacrament. They need only say: "Sorry, Lord" and they are forgiven, even if it happens ten times a day.
4. Catholics must receive Holy Communion at least twice a year.
Protestants don't have to do this.
5. Catholics must observe some Lenten fasting .
Protestants don't have to do this.
6. Catholics must observe the MEATLESS Fridays during Lent and on Ash Wednesday
Protestants don't have to do this.
7. Catholics may not remarry after divorce. Divorce/remarriage = forbidden by the Church.
Protestants can marry, divorce, remarry, divorce, remarry, divorce...just like the long-dead King Henry VIII. HIS wives: divorced; beheaded; died; divorced; beheaded; survived.
8. Same gender marriage is FORBIDDEN in the Catholic Church.
In some Protestant denominations men are allowed to marry other men; Protestant women are allowed to marry other women.
9. Catholics must wrestle with both mortal and venial sins.
Protestants don't have that equivocation. I don't know it they recognize if there is a difference. Perhaps all sin is the same.
10. There IS one unforgivable sin in the Catholic Church.
Protestants don't have this.