A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
well...catholicism has been around since the early third century. The catholic church preserved the scriptures we all have today. The catholics have the complete bible w/ the deuterocanonicals which were approved by the church in 367 a.d i believe, BUT were rejected by the protestants in the 1500s> IN the end, all denominations are christian which is important, but I would stick w/ the original>
Catholicism and Protestantism are one and the same.
Protestantism simply doesn't accept the Pope as the head of the Church.
Belief-wise, they are identical and wrong, wrong, wrong!
Stay away.
well in the 1500's the catholic church added books to the bible. that's where purgatory comes from. the protestant bible is the true historical bible of God.
Protestantism, The true church was before Catholicism, Catholicism was and is the same pagan Roman religion with the Christian names, even in their Bible speaks about the end of their religious center, this church is the great prostitute. Read Revelation 18 , see the colors.
Tough question. Protestants rely upon reason in a different way than the early Christian churches such as Catholicism and Orthodoxy do. Protestantism is dependent upon tautology whereas Orthodoxy and Catholicism are much more dependent upon analogical reasoning.
Although I am Catholic, if you want intellectual superiority, I would say agnosticism wins as the most honest. But if you are seeking fulfillment as you say, I vote Leninist style Atheism. It trumps either Christian group hands down.
But I do want to point out that dandersexs wrong about the Bible. Catholics did not add books in the 1500s. The Catholic Canon was set at the Council of Rome in the fourth century.
In the 1500s, Martin Luther edited out those books. Catholics then responded by reaffirming their canon at the Council of Trenr (in the 16th century).
setting aside you love love OS using the word excellentlyGUith reagrd ot people you disargee with ...
its would be an overgeneralisation to pick one or the other
and not terribly helpful
my experience is that
-reformed christians tend to be more intellectually precise and more farmiary with church history
- bapist more familira with the bible, less familiar with church history
- pentacostals more emotioally oriented
- catholics more tradition oriented and least likely to be familiar with the scriptures personally
- liberals often scholarly and wise in the ways of the world, but too willing to sell the farm as far as biblical truths and more prone to radical skeptisism
Which is intellectually superior, Catholicism or Protestantism?
