When will Protestantism dissapear?

[David_Paul]

CanonAlberic:

Depends on how long it takes Bush and Co. and the “Christian Right” to get their way. If they do, everything else BUT Protestantism will go away, and we will be living in a glorious, intolerant, repressive, theocratic hxxxhole. I can’t wait…

Peace.

Catholics have as much voice, if not more, in this adminstration as Prots. Aside from the Catholic just nominated to the Supreme Court, Fr. Richard Neuhaus and other Catholics have worked on GOP position papers.

Breakdown of the pro-Kerry vote:

69% of Modernist Catholics

69% of Latino Catholics

45% of Catholics who attend Mass at least once weekly

45% of Centrist Catholics

28% of Traditionalist Catholics

Source:

The American Religious Landscape and the 2004 Presidential Vote: Increased Polarization

 

[Egg4christ]

I had to vote muhahahaha, but you do realize this thread is just inviting us to insult each other. I think very few of us are resisting the temptation well.

 

[Zooey]

Nun_ofthe_Above:

I agree with Murdoch.

Personally, I think we should be less worried about Christian groups, whether they be Catholic or Protestant, and be more concerned about those people who have turned away from Christianity altogether; whatever guise that be in.
Whilst we profess our faith in the Triune God, we stand a chance of obtaining heaven, but deny Him, and well, we are up the creek without a paddle…Once upon a time invincible ignorance may have had a sporting chance, but in our enlightened age, it is harder to profess ignorance of Christianity. We need to focus more on getting them to convert to Christianity, than worry about the comparitively minor ecumenical differences of Christianity.
Might I venture to say, Better a bad Catholic / Protestant than a good Non-Christian?

Just my thoughts…

Peace and Love to all.

I have to say, I think this is a very wise post.
Yes, I am the Methodist in residence, but I say this very seriously…I see all kinds of weird groups popping up all over the place, some of which deny the existence of God at all…New Age stuff all over, etc, ad nauseum.
Society is increasingly secularized. In many ways, we are living in a post Christian world.(I didn’t invent the term…first heard it from the late, great, Bishop Sheen).
Back in the 50s, one of my mother’s dear friends was a missionary nurse in Africa. She had great fellowship with the Catholic nuns in the area. They were, she would say, all on the “same team”.
We really need to work this way more. It is do-able.
God bless.

 

[deb1]

I think that too many people when reading the word ‘Protestant’ in their minds see the radical fundamentalists who is rabidly antiCatholic. There are many Protestants who are neither anti Catholic or extreme liberals. They are often very good, very sincere Christians, who are as offended by Catholic bashing as we are.

I voted no without the muwahahaha(Although, I like saying that outloud ). I don’t want Protestant denominations to vanish because they-even the extreme fundamentalists-might be replaced by something much worse. Do we really want someone like Bishop SPonge designing a church?:nope:

 

[reen12]

Dear deb1,

quote: deb1

I voted no without the muwahahaha(Although, I like saying that outloud ).

That’s what I meant by: “That’s very funny.”

I’m trying to picture how I would feel if I went to a
Christian website, other than an RCC one, and
found the question:
“When will Catholicism disappear?”

From me to all Christians on this thread:
Let’s stand shoulder to shoulder in these modernist
times, and we can get back to “arguing” later.

reen12

 

[Lilyofthevalley]

Madaglan you sound like a nasty human being. I do hope you address your problem with hatred at your next confesion.

 

[But_for_Grace]

This is an intresting thought, but like others noted it seems to be intentionally subersive and designed to tempt us into bickering.

I just have to wonder though, with how quickly the number of protestant denominations are growing, how long until critical mass is reached and boom. It just seems that at the rate that it is going in a hundred years every single prostestant will have his/her own denomination, unfortunately most of these will have a membership of one.

 

[Egg4christ]

Zooey:

I have to say, I think this is a very wise post.
Yes, I am the Methodist in residence, but I say this very seriously…I see all kinds of weird groups popping up all over the place, some of which deny the existence of God at all…New Age stuff all over, etc, ad nauseum.
Society is increasingly secularized. In many ways, we are living in a post Christian world.(I didn’t invent the term…first heard it from the late, great, Bishop Sheen).
Back in the 50s, one of my mother’s dear friends was a missionary nurse in Africa. She had great fellowship with the Catholic nuns in the area. They were, she would say, all on the “same team”.
We really need to work this way more. It is do-able.
God bless.

I too have to echo this post. Wonder what kind of damage we could do to satan if we were working on the same team.

 

[reen12]

Do-able is the word.

I wish we could pick a hymn that we could all sing,
wholeheartedly, together.

reen12

 

[Mickey]

reen12:

Do-able is the word.

I wish we could pick a hymn that we could all sing,
wholeheartedly, together.

reen12

We’d probably fight over who would be the lead singer!

 

[Chazemataz]

Interesting. Catholicism’s numbers have been remaining steady, but protestants have been fluxing up and down throught the years. You see, Catholics are usually good at rasing kids who a.) are very nominal, and therefore stay Catholic and raise their kids catholic ect. or b.) kids who are the next canidates for clergy.
And to answer your question I picked NEVER!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! because when Christ comes again, He will not see the Roman catholic church, He will not see the Methodist church, He will not see the Church of England, He will not see the Church of Jesus Christ of Lds, He will not see the Reformed First Baptist church of Christ 2050, but He will see His Church: The Church He started. The One Holy Christian Church.

 

[Ahimsa]

Madaglan:

It took a few hundred years for Arianism to dissapear, and just a few less for Cathars to fade away. Gnosticism lasted for a long while in the West before being controled.

Any prophesies on the fall of Protestantism are most welcome

Arianism didn’t disappear (Isaac Newton adhered to it); neither did Gnosticism.

As for Protestantism: the urge to protest will never go away.

 

[reen12]

Gawd, Gnosticism is having a field day in the

late 20th and early 21th century! [Hi, Ahimsa].

Mickey, you’re probably right. Picking a lead singer
would undoubtedly deepen the difficulty.
I’m an alto, so it couldn’t be me. I’d start the hymn
on too low a pitch.

Kindest regards,
reen

 

[twiztedseraph]

I really hope within our lifetimes. Perhaps when the Orthodox come around we can band together and fight those evil prots! Heh just kidding, they’re not evil just mislead. But yeah, I hope we can really take them over.

 

[rjs1]

Protestantism will only finally be destroyed when Our Lord returns on the Day of Judgement.
Human beings are far too proud to submit themselves to God’s Holy Catholic Church when they get great pleasure from setting up their own churches with their own theology and expecting God to fit in with them.

 

[Nun_ofthe_Above]

Mickey:

We’d probably fight over who would be the lead singer!

Pick a hymn, any hymn, every hymn’s a winner. Jesus will be our leader (as is right and fitting), and we can all mumble and slurr our way as best we can through it…if you don’t know the words, make them up! To God, it doesn’t really matter…so long as we are singing His praises!

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**So long as we have Christ, we shall not faulter! **
**Christians vs. The Rest… (Sounds like Australia vs The World XI in cricket!) **
When two or more are gathered in His name, He is among us! What a wonderful thing this is!
Oops…sorry…getting carried away…I like the idea of all christians uniting. Actually, we may have alot of differnces, but Jesus is and always will be our Common Link…whilst we are bickering over our differences, we fail to see our similarities…and the other side rubs its collective hands together with the realization that they don’t have to move a muscle to win this battle…we are doing a good enough job ourselves. The ‘enemy’ is playing us all for a bunch of fools, and we are falling for it! Don’t let the other team have the satisfaction of seeing our confusion; let us put on a united front as Christians, and come out fighting!

Sorry, I will get off my high horse now…

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Peace and love to all.

 

[UBERROGO]

Ahimsa:

Arianism didn’t disappear (Isaac Newton adhered to it); neither did Gnosticism.

As for Protestantism: the urge to protest will never go away.

• because all protestants do is protest catholicism, whatever.

 

[But_for_Grace]

- because all protestants do is protest catholicism, whatever.

is that really a fair statement, Uberrogo? If there is a norm someone will want to go against it. If there is a truth someone will discent. It has little to do with the Catholic Church and everything to do with human nature.

We have had people protesting wars, slavery, racism, sexism, and every other mode of doing things that has become dogmatized and dictorial in its ways of doing things. Are these not also protest-ants, that is those who protest.

The most telling thing about Protestant Churches is this, one they still are Prostestant and two they are Churches. Protest leads to division. This is bad, especially when Christ prayed for visible unity among his followers, that they be one even as He and the Father are one. That is my beef with protestantism, as to the people, many are truly wonderful people who are just misguided.

 

[Ahimsa]

- because all protestants do is protest catholicism, whatever.

Never said that. (By the way, I’m not even Catholic.) Just an observation about human nature – people just love to protest against something or other, and protest is often necessary, no? In fact, I would say that we all protest, in one form or another.

 

[EA_Man]

MacleodOFS:

I always say better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic.

Agreed. I would slightly reword by saying:

“Give me a disciple of Jesus Christ no matter what church they attends.”

Peace