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The failure of Protestantism : Comments
By Peter Sellick, published 7/12/2007Why do Protestants remain separated from the Roman Catholic Church after most of the reasons for their separation have disappeared?
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The selling of indulgences to which Luther took objection was not, I think you will find, anything to do with sacraments. This referred to the habit of people paying money for a modified "Get Out of Jail Free" card: - so much money resulted in so many days parole from purgatory As no-one has succeeded computing exactly how many days till infinity ends, this was a pretty good racket as one could go on paying for days off with, of course, no end in sight. You said this still goes on to-day...well I know that theres one born every minute, but its hard to imagine?
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yes, I too would have thought that a quick answer to the question of what stops Protestants becoming Romans was available without any meanderings away from the tenets and bedrock issues: how many Protestants accept the concepts of The Trinity...Transubstantiation...the Sacraments. How many lay religious Protestants would be happy taking the 3 vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and making the leap into religious orders? All the rest, the issues Sellick brings up, appear to be so much window dressing and do not touch issues of faith at all but merely preference.