#frankly a lot of problems with modern christianity can be traced back to calvin

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didn’t want to get into this on the last post cause it would be derailing of a very high order, so im making my own post about it:

if you are under the impression that christianity is split into catholics (who have mysticism, stained glass, hymns, literal communion) and evangelicals/protestants/etc (who have bare churches, contemporary music, symbolic communion, watery theology) PLEASE read up on more non catholic specific denominations.

lutherans and anglicans (potentially presbyterians? unsure) have many if not all of those things. i was raised and am lutheran and we’ve always believed in a literal communion, we have vestments, we have hymns, we have liturgy, we have rituals, we have sacraments, we have stained glass. like. “protestants” werent the ones getting rid of icons, that was calvinists. MOST of modern day western christians that you’re thinking of come from calvinism (after luther) and 17th century puritanism. lutherans still get their core texts from, y’know, luther, back in 15-something. a lot of people even don’t consider lutherans to be entirely protestant but somewhere between the two. not that there’s never any overlap, but like. please im so sick of it. (and this doesn’t even get into how orthodox christians also exist and are neither catholic nor protestant)

#x #christianity #lutheranism #also like in my experience there’s always fun rivalry between catholics and lutherans but there’s also a deep respect #because like we’re more similar to each other than either of us are to the majority of denominations in (limited via my experience) the us #but for obvious reasons we don’t want to be just grouped in with catholics #neither of us wants that #frankly a lot of problems with modern christianity can be traced back to calvin #there’s a lot of interesting readings about that