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3. The only unity among Protestants denominations is that they reject Catholicism as the way to follow Christ. Beyond that, the doctrinal differences among the thousands of Protestant congregations are endless to the point of absurdity.

This is not a true observation...actually most protestants have greater agreement amoung themselves than there is between 6 Catholics standing in the same pew on Sunday...

Now I have bumped "non Catholics Christians " of several different traditions...and beleieve it or not..the FR wars aside...we have between 95-99% agreement ...the differences are eithor traditional or mildly doctrinal. (such as the order of salvation or infant baptism).

The word of God is so important to us we will go to the mat over one small thing.

I have RC family that are all over the map, most do not even think about the Bible or doctrine..they are traditional Catholics ..they inherited it with their eye color.

Now there are some protestants that are the same..but for the most part practicing Protestants are thoughful in matters of doctrine ..their church choice reflects that thought

I have RC family that are all over the map, most do not even think about the Bible or doctrine..they are traditional Catholics ..they inherited it with their eye color.

an excellent point Mom - I can attest it is accurate from my limited experience having been raised in an Italian Catholic household. It was inherited with the family sauce recipe.

3. The only unity among Protestants denominations is that they reject Catholicism as the way to follow Christ. Beyond that, the doctrinal differences among the thousands of Protestant congregations are endless to the point of absurdity. This is not a true observation...actually most protestants have greater agreement amoung themselves than there is between 6 Catholics standing in the same pew on Sunday...

I guess they needed some word to express non-Roman Catholic Christian so they came up with "protestant." Whatever. I prefer non-Roman Cathoic Christian. Actually, only a low percentage of non-Roman Catholic Christian groups were involved in the reformation protests against Roman Catholicism.

The Assemblies of God, eg, didn't even exist in the reformation. NOR did the Methodists, Church of Christ, and Evangelical Free....and etc.