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Protestantism just flat out sucks…right? (hexbear.net)
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I’m speaking as someone born to people from a non-Abrahamic faith so I don’t know shit about fuck with regards to Christianity, I’m just going off my observations of my hometown and the world around me.

This is mostly anecdotal but I’ve heard Evangelical protestantism has made such in roads in Puerto Rico that I think a majority of the island might actually be Evangelical. I know this is pretty much the case throughout the rest of Latin America. This phenomenon coincides with the rightward shift of the entire region.

Not saying Catholicism is without its skeletons but as the world becomes more cruel, violent, and evil, I can’t help but draw a parallel. I remember reading about de las Casas in High School and the at times moderating influence of Catholicism in Spanish territories, whereas I can find no history of redeeming qualities in the Protestant faith, particularly evangelicism.

This is baby’s first attempt at analysis of Christian theology, so please bear in that mind. My brilliant insights into this are along the lines of ‘the Brazilian national football team is ass now because the players are no longer alcoholic womanizing Catholics’. I’m sure all you Evangelical freaks on hexbear dot net will be foaming at the mouth

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This was originally about Catholicism being comparable to Protestantism in how bad it was. The stem comment literally started with "catholicism sucks a heap of shit too, pal" and you responded to that, defending the honor of your preferred ecclesiastical body with unsubstantiated allegations.

and given 90%+ were done by protestants

You keep spewing that out with nothing to back it up.

Literally the most famous person ever burned at the stake was a Roman Catholic, executed by other Roman Catholics, as part of a decades-long war that the Roman Catholic Church failed (for a second time) to preclude, as many would suppose to be the function of an international/interethnic political religious entity.

The Catholic Church exercised widespread violent pressure against pagans and Muslims and Jews (and sometimes even Eastern Orthodox Christians!), and was a bulwark of patriarchy.

Burning at the stake was practiced and common enough before Protestantism even became a thing. In fact, execution by fire was in practice pre-Luther for longer than it was in practice post-Luther. You can say that Calvinists and Lutherans (just two of many kinds of Protestants) did it too, but to say that it was exclusively typical to Protestants is completely wrong.

If we're going to recognize that Protestants only started controlling states and armies later on, and compare apples to apples, consider that when an American (Protestant) president started his second large-scale war, and claimed to have consulted "a higher father" about it, the bishops of his denomination vehemently refuted and disavowed the idea that such a war would be approved by God. There are plenty of Protestant denominations that can rightfully claim to have never condoned war or genocide, and some that can even claim to have never condoned violence of any sort.

Protestants are a mixed bag, but you certainly don't see Protestant churches adorned in silver from the Potosí mines or anything like that. In absolute terms they are nowhere near as blood-soaked as the Catholic Church, and in relative terms many of the Protestant churches are rather clean (some, not others).

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