Is it ok to consider Protestant Churches inspired by the Devil?

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The Roman Catechism of Trent seems to tell that protestants reformers were inspired by devil, so it seems that protestant churches are, at least in their essence, demoniacal. Is it a valid or possible interpretation?

What the Catechism says:

But while the preaching of the divine Word should never be interrupted in the Church, surely in these, our days, it becomes necessary to labour with more than ordinary zeal and piety to nourish and strengthen the faithful with sound and wholesome doctrine, as with the food of life. For false prophets have gone forth into the world, to corrupt the minds of the faithful with various and strange doctrines, of whom the Lord has said: I did not send prophets, yet they ran; I spoke not to them, yet they prophesied.
In this work, to such extremes has their impiety, practiced in all the arts of Satan, been carried, that it would seem almost impossible to confine it within any bounds; and did we not rely on the splendid promises of the Saviour, who declared that He had built His Church on so solid a foundation that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, we should have good reason to fear lest, beset on every side by such a host of enemies and assailed and attacked by so many machinations, it would, in these days, fall to the ground.
 
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Oh my goodness no. Look, I think the fullness of the Christian faith is in the Catholic Church. But in very many Protestant churches you find solidly faithful people who love God and Jesus and know their Bible and try so hard to put Christ first in every part of their lives. I think both camps suffer because of the division, and need what the other has. It breaks my heart - this dividedness and disunity. I am even willing to bet that the reformers themselves meant well, but made a mistake by separating from the church instead of trying to reform it from within, and, they could not possibly have foreseen the consequences that came forth from that.
 
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No. Protestant churches are not demonic. To the extent that a protestant denomination’s teachings disagree with those of Holy Mother Church, that denomination is wrong: but wrong does not mean evil.
 
The devil has an influence in anything and everything that tries to pull us apart or that tries to make us love less, but calling protestant churches “demonic” is problematic because they’re ultimately made up of human beings and they contain a lot of truth. Let’s not give the unclean spirits too much credit. They would like that.

Besides, the devil has heavy influence and activity within the Catholic Church but I hope you wouldn’t consider the Church “demonic”. It was founded by Jesus Christ and he loves the Church.
 
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Sure. We are sheep, the Catholic Church is our fold, the fold that our Shepherd built upon Peter. Sheep should be in their fold. If they’re outside their own fold, built by their Shepherd for them, then whatever they’re all doing out there certainly isn’t what their and our Shepherd is inspiring them to do, so who is inspiring them sheep out there? It’s not Jesus.
 
I love this, from Pope Benedict:

"Protestantism has made an important contribution to the realization of Christian faith, fulfilling a positive function in the development of the Christian message and, above all, often giving rise to a sincere and profound faith in the individual non-Catholic Christian, whose separation from the Catholic affirmation has nothing to do with the pertinacia characteristic of heresy. Perhaps we may here invert a saying of St. Augustine’s: that an old schism becomes a heresy. The very passage of time alters the character of a division, so that an old division is something essentially different from a new one. Something that was once rightly condemned as heresy cannot later simply become true, but it can gradually develop its own positive ecclesial nature, with which the individual is presented as his church and in which he lives as a believer, not as a heretic. This organization of one group, however, ultimately has an effect on the whole. The conclusion is inescapable, then: Protestantism today is something different from heresy in the traditional sense, a phenomenon whose true theological place has not yet been determined.”
 
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The Roman Catechism of Trent seems to tell that protestants reformers were inspired by devil, so it seems that protestant churches are, at least in their essence, demoniacal. Is it a valid or possible interpretation?
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Absolutely NOT!
 
Is there no such thing as human error? Why does it have to be inspired by Satan or demons if not by G-d?
 
  1. NOT NOT NOT a good way to begin conversation.
  2. The devil does not and cannot “inspire” (the breath of life) - he incites. Think of riots: they are not inspired, they are incited.
  3. While we cannot separate the evil one from his beloved division, man’s ego does the heavy lifting at the devil’s slightest whisper.
  4. Perhaps better - I make it a practice to cross myself with holy water and ask the Lord for the grace of “Charity always” in conversation with others.
  5. Demonstrating the joy you have come to know as a Catholic is attractive. Just don’t beat anyone over the head with it. Truth and beauty speak for themselves.
 
Make a longer story shorter - for surely the Catholic Church fully accepts some of what many Protestant church’s profess to be True… including everything mutually agreed upon with respect to Christ Jesus…Allowing as well - for non-Catholics to enter into God’s Kingdom…
 
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The Roman Catechism of Trent seems to tell that protestants reformers were inspired by devil, so it seems that protestant churches are, at least in their essence, demoniacal. Is it a valid or possible interpretation?
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I see where you’re coming from. I’m sure Satan & his ilk are complicit in division but not so much that I’d call protestants & their traditions demonic.

Adam could blame Satan all day long, didn’t remove his culpability. He freely chose between good & evil. The fall, though influenced by the serpent, was man’s fault.
 
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