re: Interesting how "Evangelicals" are separating themselves from "Protestants".

Our OCIA class had 16 in attendance today. I would say 11-12 are 35 and under. Our parish is in a very Protestant area of Kentucky.

It’s very exciting to see the younger generation return to Church and explore the faith.

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we can kill off Wokeness, we will ALL be much better off.

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Yupppp

No it’s in the Apostles creed.

My uncle lives near NOLA and his whole family is Catholic, he converted when marrying my Aunt (deceased). They are good people, lots of kids and grandkids

I have no problems with the Catholic Church.

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Protestantism’s founding sacrament is schism

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Not true. The first protestants were catholics who were trying to reform the catholic church. They initially had no intention of leaving. But when the catholic leaders cared more about money and influence than they did biblical truth, the reformers left, as they should have.

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they’ve been subdividing for 500 years

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Splitting in and of itself is not unbiblical

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Every man’s his own pope

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The office of pope is a stupid notion and this history of the office is littered with contradiction both internally and with conciliarism

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who thinks his reading of a translation is backed by the Spirit infallibly

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As long as the person is not being hindering by unrepented sin, then yes, this is biblical. Biblical discernment grows as a person continues to mature spiritually

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because they read someone’s English interpretation based upon 500 year old traditions

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The catholic church does all sorts of unbiblical things based on "tradition" which they wrongly claim is equal to scripture itself which is a hilariously laughable notion

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The Good News is that we are not condemned for sin, under the law

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Well, that's the initial part of it. There's more after that

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typically converts who want to bring remnants of their fifthly protestant faith with them

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Oh yes, clinging on to that farcical notion stated by Jesus in Matt 28:19 and Paul in Romans 10:9. We sure wouldn't want THAT in the catholic church. We have way more important, unbiblical things to do like simony and infant baptism and arguing if the narthex should be on the west side of the church

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I have no problems with the Catholic Church

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Oof. So you're ok saying that "Tradition" (in a highly institutional sense) is equal to scripture itself? It's a completely farcical notion and ends up being straight up heretical in praxis

James White asked Jimmy Akin this question and didn't get an answer: What did Jesus say that's not recorded in scripture?

Catholics can't produce anything. Then how in the world could Paul's reference to "tradition" be anything other than the gospel? Which means the magisterial "Tradition" has no authority whatsoever. Which means all of the sacramental nonsense cannot possibly be indispensible for salvation. All of the catholic magisterium and sacramental distinctives (papism, mariolatry, sacramentalism, pedobaptism, purgatory, veneration of the saints, etc) are made up out of thin air. They're methods of control that have no basis in scripture

All of this goes for EO too, minus papism

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Both Catholic & Orthodox seem to be growing with the younger generations. I'm all for it

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Orthodox parishes are overflowing.

Our little parish is bursting at the seams with young families with quivers chock full of children experiencing Holy Orthodoxy and Divine Liturgy. We're full of athiest/agnostic, Muslim, protestant and Catholic converts from all corners of the world and a dozen different languages.

So much so that we're petitioning for a grant to enlarge our temple. We've simply run out of room. The church is calling its people back to it, glory be to God.

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Nobody wants “more of the same” when the world is full of ideologically centrist slop.

Our priest even went on a rant and made a not-so-subtle jab at Methodists when they were undergoing their schism regarding gayness, something like “we can’t abandon our beliefs simply because the wider world may temporarily think we should.” It was based as hell.

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Bravo! to your Priest for not bending to the world and leading his flock in the right direction.

I am a Global Methodist. We broke away from the woke, evil United Methodist Church. We go by the Bible. I don't know what you call us but we have had to go to a 3rd service to accommodate the worshippers. We are a very active Church is supporting more missions than I can even name. I don't know how your survey was done as in loaded questions to get the answers you want to get. I don't want to sound like an isolationist because we are anything but that. We are happy, happy, happy!