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[Ace Abbas]

What's the main difference between Catholic and Protestant?
My friends are mostly Catholic. They say that Protestant came after Catholic.
Those who disagree with the teachings of Catholic went out from the fold of it and started to form their own group.
But the Protestants are still considered to be alright and not on astray by the Catholic.
What are other major differences between Catholic and Protestant?
Do Catholics and Protestants unite?

[Gypsy]

Catholics follow the Pope (in Vatican City). Protestants do not follow the Pope.

[Saintly_Jinn23]

"Protestant" is a term used to refer to a number Christian church orders that do not follow the central authority of clergy in Vatican city such as Methodist, Calvinist, Lutheran, Baptist, etc.

[Son of Placid]

Protestants also don't follow the old traditions. I see no salvation in kissing a priests ring, lighting umpteen dozen candles, praying to saints, nor asking a priest to get my sins forgiven for me. Everybody else may have gotten sprinkled with holy water, I always got it in the eye. No, it didn't burn, and no I didn't melt.

[Ace Abbas]

Son of Placid, on 12 March 2012 - 10:28 PM, said:

Everybody else may have gotten sprinkled with holy water, I always got it in the eye. No, it didn't burn, and no I didn't melt.

Lol.

[Pascal]

Never saw anyone kiss a priests ring...

Anyway, The churches were all one up untill they split, very much like Islam. In the start there was just one islam, now you have sects. Similar with Christianity.

https://en.wikipedia...hism_(religion)

The catholic protestant split was rooted in theology.

The east-west split (eg western christianity and eastern (orthodox) christianity) had a pretty strong base in politics as well as theology

[Ace Abbas]

kingpomba, on 14 March 2012 - 06:13 AM, said:

Never saw anyone kiss a priests ring...

Anyway, The churches were all one up untill they split, very much like Islam. In the start there was just one islam, now you have sects. Similar with Christianity.

https://en.wikipedia..._%28religion%29

The catholic protestant split was rooted in theology.

The east-west split (eg western christianity and eastern (orthodox) christianity) had a pretty strong base in politics as well as theology

We have our own histories of why we separate into sects; the views of the Companions of Rasulullah sall Allahu 'alayhi wa alihi wa sallam, the views of the Imams, the views of the succession of Rasulullah sall Allahu 'alayhi wa alihi wa sallam.

What made Christian separate into Catholicism and Protestantism?

Edited by Ace Abbas, 14 March 2012 - 06:57 AM.

[md. ammar ali]

catholics believe in the divinity of mariam mother of nabi isa

protestants dont

[Pascal]

It's all covered in the article. The Catholic protestant split was largely over a lot of theological differences, "the reformation". One of the central figures, martin luther (heard of lutherans, thats where they get the name from) allegedly nailed his 95 demands or gripes with the catholic church to the door of a church.

Remember, at this time the religion was already divided into the religion of the clergy and the religion of the people. The way ordinary people practiced was pretty different. In those days the priest stood with his back to the congregation...spoke in latin...ect. This continued in the catholic church untill like 50 years ago when they worked through Vatican II. Since almost no one spoke latin except the clergy, it was of little use to the average person. Again, you really have to consider the history of the time too. The church owned so much property and masses of land. I'm not sure if it was during this time period but it had its own (fairly large) army at one point too.

I personally find the east-west split more interesting because it happened earlier and it preserved a snap shot of the differences in the way christianity was being practiced in the east compared (russia, greece, middle east ect) to the west.(Germany, Italy, ect). Obviously these places didnt exist at the time but it roughly corresponds to them. The political differences at this time were relatively important as well (4th crusades).

Those articles do a decent job. Keep in mind the way christianity has been practiced has changed significantly since it was first created.

The differences and reasons are complicated though. You can get into the very very minute details like a pope vs an arch bishop or about the echuarist or how to make the sign of the cross...worth reading those articles for a start

Edited by kingpomba, 14 March 2012 - 01:04 PM.