Many. I live in a predominantly Catholic state. Catholics should follow their own advice and not make assumptions and spend their time instead reading God’s Word (without filling in blanks that aren’t there).
I asked. But just because the state you live in is “Catholic” really doesn’t mean much anymore.
Your average Catholic layman is uneducated about Catholicism.
That’s been my experience in almost 20 years of being a Catholic.
But I asked if you have close friends who are Catholic and who know their faith?
I didn’t presume anything.
Our Lutheran, Orthodox and Anglican traditional friends believe in the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist as do we.
Some of those under that wide umbrella term Protestant (which I don't think is a correct term -- see next post) believe in the presence of Christ's body and blood in the Eucharist -- do you?
If not, then why not spend time reading God's written word?
Also, God’s Word as referenced in John 1 is Jesus Christ — the Bible is the written word, not completely God’s Word which is Jesus.
Many Baptists for instance will insist that they are not Protestant
Then again there is a wide range of contradicting beliefs -- Lutherans believe in the sacraments of the Eucharist and Baptism, while Baptists and Presbyterians will say there is no Real Presence in the Eucharist.
Then again there is the Church of Christ which has its own beliefs that some others say are Pelagian.
Then you have Benny Hinn with his 9 gods
Then the Arminian v/s Calvinist fundamental distinction etc.
It is more apt to consider each group on its own merits -- Presbyterians, Lutherans, Evangelicals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Oneness Pentecostals, Assemblies of God, Church of Christ, Methodists, Anglicans, Adventists, Christian Scientists, Unitarians etc.