Whats the difference between the Protestant religion and the Catholic religion?
Protestantism began as a protest against the practices of the late medieval and early Renaissance Catholic Church. It was a protest against the excesses and corruption going on, as well as some blatantly unChristian methods the Church was using to finance itself. Protestantism includes the following faiths: Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Episcopalianism, Puritans, Quakers, Amish, Mennonites, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Methodists, Mormons, and Baptists. It does not include Greek Orthodoxy. In general, Protestantism was meant to be more austere than Catholicism, with far less ritual and ceremony. Its Bibles were printed in the vernacular languages of the countries whee worshippers lived, rather than all being printed in Latin, as the Catholic Bibles were. The Protestants also rejected the idea of the Pope and allegiance to him, favoring instead a more explicitly administrative leader. The Pope was/is said to be divinely-inspired, especially when speaking from the papal seat. Many Protestant
