Does penance have any place in Protestantism?

[ltwin]

I do not think Protestants are “so lazy”. It all boils down to whether you believe that it is necessary to do penance — freely chosen sacrifices, sufferings, prayers, in short, something that you “reach in and take out of yourself”, that involves just a little bit of hardship or labor — to offer to Almighty God as an atonement, or “punishment accepted”, for one’s sins committed after baptism. Catholics do believe this is necessary. The general consensus of Protestantism is that you do not have to do this, in fact, it would be pointless, because “Jesus did it all” on the cross.

Yeah, and rightly so in my opinion. Just pointing out that Protestants do enact many “penitential” practices, you might say, just for different reasons.