Protestants believe in infalliblity of their leaders.

[Roy5]

I haven’t read all the postings but here are a few random comments.

1. The KJV is only one of many versions used in most Protestant churches. There are a few ultra-fundamentalists who will only use the KJV.

2. **Most Protestants I know are quite free about criticizing their ministers if they disagree or disapprove**. Some will even switch churches. But in smaller communities this is less likely. People are likely to be attached to a congregation through family ties, often going back generations. Ministers come and go. I think that Protestants feel, in contrast, that Catholics have been unduly compliant to their priests. This is less true today. They also are perplexed by the way that Catholics seem to idolize the Popes, as though he were God himself. Herding Protestants is like herding cats. The exception is in the some of these new non-denominational congregations. They usually are founded by a free-lance pastor, out on his own, and often those churches are built around a minister - his gift for preaching, his personality, etc. In such cases the minister sometimes may become a mini-dictator.

3**. One of the major themes of the Reformation was that Christians should have direct access to the Bible.** For generations Catholics were not encouraged to read the Bible, but that has changed since Vatican II. Millions of Protestants are literalists when it comes to scripture. Millions are not. Some are skeptics, for example, about many of the gruesome Old Testament stories (e. g., God orders Saul to kill every Amalekite, man, woman, child, suckling), and even some of the New Testament miracles. Did Jesus really feed over 5000 with only two little fishes and five loaves of bread?

 This is the strength and weakness of Protestantism: it has freedom of thought and a spot for just about every belief and believer, but as a result it is broken into several hundred pieces.