Look, Rome went off the rails in the Middle Ages in replacing the traditional faith with an Aristotelian philosophical cult and Frankish superstitions, but Protestanism in its trajectory was always revolutionary and anti-traditional. It's a straight road down a slippery slope from Scholasticism to the Reformation to Renaissance Humanism to the Enlightenment and on to modern anti-Christian, atheistic secularism. There is truth in it, like there is truth in Roman Catholicism, but it effectively invented a new theology and religion cut from whole cloth out of particular presuppositions it imposed upon its reading of scripture, a theology and religion which bears as little resemblance to the of historical record as does the Papalism which caused the irreparable split between Rome and Eastern Christianity. Nobody can talk to me of "traditionalism" while embracing iconoclasm, abandoning sacramentalism and the Eucharistic sacrifice, or looking to post-Christian Jews who rejected Christ for their canon of Old Testament scripture. And I don't know how anyone can read the scatalogical Luther, who in his own writings tells of having disputations with the Devil in which he flung his faeces at the spirit and coming up with his idea of sola fide, really forensic justification, while taking a dump on the toilet, and think he was a righteous man who "re-discovered" some truth supposedly lost from the Christian world for over a thousand years.
I am not Eastern Orthodox myself, and I love aspects of Protestant and Evangelical faith, but I highly recommend people who are truly interested in these problems to take a look at Jay Dyer's discussions of them.
In case anyone needed any more proof that American “Christianity” is indeed a modern invention that has next to nothing to do with the religion and faith of original Christians.
"Traditionalism" and "Protestant Christianity" are terms that don't belong in the same sentence as each other.
Look, Rome went off the rails in the Middle Ages in replacing the traditional faith with an Aristotelian philosophical cult and Frankish superstitions, but Protestanism in its trajectory was always revolutionary and anti-traditional. It's a straight road down a slippery slope from Scholasticism to the Reformation to Renaissance Humanism to the Enlightenment and on to modern anti-Christian, atheistic secularism. There is truth in it, like there is truth in Roman Catholicism, but it effectively invented a new theology and religion cut from whole cloth out of particular presuppositions it imposed upon its reading of scripture, a theology and religion which bears as little resemblance to the of historical record as does the Papalism which caused the irreparable split between Rome and Eastern Christianity. Nobody can talk to me of "traditionalism" while embracing iconoclasm, abandoning sacramentalism and the Eucharistic sacrifice, or looking to post-Christian Jews who rejected Christ for their canon of Old Testament scripture. And I don't know how anyone can read the scatalogical Luther, who in his own writings tells of having disputations with the Devil in which he flung his faeces at the spirit and coming up with his idea of sola fide, really forensic justification, while taking a dump on the toilet, and think he was a righteous man who "re-discovered" some truth supposedly lost from the Christian world for over a thousand years.
I am not Eastern Orthodox myself, and I love aspects of Protestant and Evangelical faith, but I highly recommend people who are truly interested in these problems to take a look at Jay Dyer's discussions of them.
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In case anyone needed any more proof that American “Christianity” is indeed a modern invention that has next to nothing to do with the religion and faith of original Christians.