if one were to address the issue of protestantism directly, it very obviously falls on its face. i'll explain. i think, without knowing anything about you, that you would agree that the current state of the anglican church is a laughable heresy: women priests marrying gay couples, saying they should take down crosses to make muslims feel welcome. well, why is it considered a heresy / bad? isn't their interpretation just as valid as yours? sans any "authority", it is in fact. you can point to verses that support your view, and they can as well. all protestant history is, canonically, "we all followed the church until one day we split apart from it". even martin luther wrote "on the jews and their lies" when he realized how he was influenced to damage the catholic church. lastly, on a somewhat biased note, "faith alone" is stupid. if you have faith, you would naturally do the "good works" that your faith compels you to do. no, it's not "doing good to earn heaven", it's "doing good because your faith in christ compels you to do good". > but muh [thing i don't like] suck it up. i don't like how the roman empire made the feast of christ's birth christmas when it was clearly just a cultural takeover of saturnalia mixed with jul, other pre-existing traditions as an attempt to soften the merge for the plebs, but it is what it is.
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