re: Catholic/Protestant Debate

I think that people should just pick the way they want to worship God, Christians via Jesus Christ. Rituals of worship have been a powerful method of affecting personal and collective Spiritual vision ever since recorded history, to good and bad effect. Catholics and Protestants just have different rituals of worship, albeit Jesus clearly subordinated the power of rituals to the power of embracing and committing one's life pov to the feeling of Love. He made it clear that minus love, the rest is just drama.

Catholics believe that since Peter answered Jesus' question "Who do you believe that I am" with "you are the Son of God", that Jesus proclamation that "this is the rock" meant that Peter, the man was "the rock" whereupon Jesus would build said Church. IMO, Jesus could have just as easily meant and proclaimed that it was Peter's ANSWER of BELIEF that Jesus was and is exactly who He (Jesus) professed to be. Such being 1/3 of the Triune Godhead and the only Begotten Son of God to appear in the flesh.

I don't care what any person believes if they commit to and grow toward Love. Be it Muslim, Hindu, Jew or even Agnostic or Atheist. And I do not know to what degree one's 'Karma', or possible mitigation/forgiveness therein via Jesus' Authority - might be affected by the particular form of ritualistic worship that one might embrace according to one's conscience and nature. Because it will be Jesus that judges the heart, as opposed to the form of Religion that is employed to transform the 'Heart'/Soul.

I would seem that it would behoove and profit all to embrace Love and let God determine the rewards or lack thereof in our - hopefully so - next life.