Protestantism, to me, is often really just Bible only beliefs and they’ve stripped from it many of the benefits of the classic Church. I can be empathetic with them in the sense that the Church at times was far from correct in its applications. It is, after all, an institution that is run by fallible men.

… But when you go over to Bible only concepts with no heritage of theology that is 100% adhered to in terms of necessities, it creates this sort of chaos, doesn’t it?

BTW, the article I linked was because it was an interesting, obscure part of history. I think that guy is a massive liberal Chrisitan if he is a Christian at all. He wrote another article abshing Chesterton.

Sometimes it goes to the opposite extreme with the protestant work ethic. I’ve also seen some polls that seem to indicate a lot of protestants do seem to think works matter for salvation (even though this was traditionally associated with Catholicism… and orthodoxy?)

Yes and I prefer to think of it as transforming your life through repentance as a sort of work… but it is actually just the manifestation of the prayer life, IMO.

But yeah in the West there’s often a focus on Catholic versus protestant and idk why orthodoxy gets forgotten.

I am glad that this is changing more and more but I must admit too many Orthodox get self-righteous or overbearing on a lot of this stuff.