Three Principles of Protestantism

He invited his academic colleagues to a public disputation to consider the Ninety-five Theses, or objections, which he had raised against the sale. Luther thereby launched a protest which attracted supporters, and soon those who had joined in his protest became known as ‘Protestants’.

As far as the origin of the word "Protestant" this is inaccurate, being over a decade off--and stemming from the wrong people. Princes supporting the matured Lutheran reformation cause protested to the Charles V's Edict of the Diet of Speyer of 1530, which attempted to crush and destroy the Lutherans, some 13 years after the 95 Theses.

These princes became known as the "Protestants" and it was not a name originally given to or taken by the reformers or their lay followers in Germany, Switzerland or elsewhere. Ironically enough for us today, the original name taken by Luther for the reform movement he championed was "Evangelical," named for the evangel, called by us the gospel or simply the "good news."

And you thought the Catholic church killed off all those ‘heretics’ during the dark ages??? Apparently they didn’t get them all...

It wasn't because they didn't try.

There is one thing that unites all of the myriad of protestant sects without exception - their hatred of the Catholic Church! That is a common bond they share that transcends all of their many confusing and conflicting and different dogmas and doctrines.M

You mean like the Roman popes and magesterium deeming it absolutely neccessary for salvation to be subservient to the pope of Rome as per the Unam Sanctum and 4th Lateran Council, only to have it changed by the post Vatican II ecumenist Roman church?

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