Can you compare catholics and protestants? or are they apples and oranges? or bananas?

Answer 1

I'm not going to bite and say they're all bananas. I'll just say that they're all Christians.

Answer 2

Catholics and Protestants are all Christians, thus a comparison is viable. Roman Catholics were the original Christians because it was in Rome that Christianity evolved in its infancy. The first Protestants were the followers of Martin Luther/Lutherans. Henry VIII was the "founder" of the Anglican church (for his convenience in divorcing Catherine of Aragon). Many many other Protestant sects have arisen over the centuries, their inceptions generally attributable to a "prophet" claiming to have received a message from God. Greek and Russian Orthodox Christians are considered to be Catholics for the reason that their rituals are similar to those practiced by Roman Catholics. Protestant observances and services are usually less formal than Catholic ones. Roman Catholics also consider the Virgin Mary and various saints to be crucial to their views of Christianity -- praying the rosary to the Virgin Mary and petitioning certain saints regarding the subjects over which the particular saint is recognized as a patron.

Answer 3

I once heard someone remark that eucharist is the essence of christian being and practice. In my experience this is true of roman rite catholicism. I expect it is true of all the uniate and orthodox rites too.

In my experience, which is almost entirely limited to the US, protestants are maniacly focused on scriptures. But I think that our country is dominated by what historians call the dissident churches (or something like that), as opposed to the traditional protestant churches (lutherans, episcopalians and such).

For catholics scripture is just part of what they called the treasury of the church when I was little. When I was older we spoke of the 2 types of revelation, natural and supernatural, and the tradition of the church which mediates between them. Natural revelation is science and other types of relatively objective knowledge. Supernatural revelation is our personal spiritual knowledge. Highly mystic types have visions and such - Teresa, Ignatius, John, etc, etc. Most of us just have impressions when we pray and such. Some of us write such things down in books.

Back in the day, the patristic period, the fathers of the church sat down and argued with each other about which of the popular tales of Jesus' life and teachings they thought were best, and these become the accepted canon of scripture. (Those who really care about such things can check out the minutes of the meetings they had deciding on those books, and see who argued with who about what. Ex - the reason that the book called revelations is in the canon is because one of the fathers convinced the others that it did not matter that all of them thought that book was crazy and dangerous. It was great! for imagery to build sermons on, (People were really big on building sermons on poetic imagery in those days.) and since all us peasants and slaves and such were illiterate the craziness really didn't make any difference, because we would not be reading it. ....As I recall that guy was Augustine, the great father of the western church.)

Though important, scripture is just a small part of the tradition of the church.

...It's 7pm, and I've been sitting here too long. Gotta go make dinner. Good night folks.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

In a way we are the same (I am a protestant), but for most part to me we are apples and oranges. A lot of our beliefs are different if you look into our religions.

Answer 6

There is quite a difference. Catholics did the Inquisition and crusades, not Christians. Catholics have to go through a priest and Christians can pray directly to God in Jesus name. There are several man made rules the Catholics have that Christians don't.

Answer 7

Catholics are more strict...
protestants are just doing the 2 sacraments that Jesus Himself commanded...but we all do believe the Trinity

Answer 8

They both accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. That binds us together. But we have many differences on other matters of theology.

Pastor John

Addendum: Paladin - lol :-)

Answer 9

No, I view protestants more as limes, and Catholics as grapes.

Answer 10

It's all the same with minor variations.