What's the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism?

What's the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism?

A delusional spoliation event several hundred years ago.

Long story

but Protestants are actually people who Protested aghast the Roman catholic church. (hence the name)

And rightly so back then cause the Pope was selling indulgences which had no basis in the bible.

When people found out they had been lied to well the obviously protested and formed there own church.


Also catholics tend to follow more rituals and tradition.

Catholicism is older. It is a single religion, more or less. Protestantism is a term which encompasses a great many denominations, and they agree on very little except that they are not Catholics.

Most protestant( christian) churches have the bible as final authority. Catholicism has the pope as final authority.I started out catholic, accepted the bible as authority , and it never lead me to Rome to kiss the popes ring.

My God sits in Heaven - Protestant.

See chart:
http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/charts/catholic_protestant.htm

The Catholic Church is the one true Church established by Christ on the foundation of the Apostles. In this one and only Church of God, from its very beginning there arose certain rifts, which the Apostles strongly censured as damnable.During the Reformation much more serious dissensions appeared and large communities became separated from full communion with the Catholic Church. Some of these communities began their own denomination and Protestantism was one of these. The ruptures that wound the unity of Christ's Body - here we must distinguish heresy, apostasy, and schism - do not occur without human sin.

Not much. Mostly just the Catholic Pope, and a few minor doctrines.

What you should ask is, what's the difference between worldly "Christianity" (Catholicism and Protestantism) and biblical Christianity? And that answer would be, almost everything.
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