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So what is Unitarianism? I'm just asking and not spoiling for a fight. We have so many sects here that it is impossible to know who believes what.

My dear neighbor believes in communion once a month and foot-washing. She's Baptist of some type. She also has developed a siege mentality because Armegeddon is apparently tomorrow.

My idea of Protestantism is all sects that are not in communion with the See of Peter. Hans Kung and Spong are from the same bolt of cloth. ~But, there are those who embrace their errors. I had a supervisor tell me Christ wasn't the Son of God, while she shoved her teenager forward to take communion because he hadn't had his First as a child. No idea of Confession and Penance on this babe's mind. I asked her why she even thought she was Catholic.

A lot of people deny Christ because, frankly, He's a terrible inconvenience! Denying Him is like an anorexic seated for dinner and all that is offered is raw carrots, or a magnificent banana split. The poor dear embraces starvation for Allure or Cosmopolitan illusions and passes up the reward.

So, once again, what is Unitarianism and is it Protestant?

Unitarianism was a theological movement that arose in Britain and America in the 18th Century. It had its precursors in the days of the Church Fathers as well as in the Reformation era, Michael Servetus, for example. The movement began as a rejection of Trinitarianism, and later expanded to deny the divine inspiration of the Bible and other core Christian doctrines, such as the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, and the Substitutionary Atonement. All of the major threads of the Reformation were Trinitarian, and the Lutheran, Reformed, and Anglican churches recognized the authority of the first six ecumenical councils, which defined the character of the Trinity and the fully divine, fully human nature of Jesus Christ. The Reformers universally believed in the divine inspiration of Scripture.

By abandoning the theological positions of the Reformers in these areas, which in these respects are in entire agreement with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, the Unitarians cannot be defined as Protestant.

From what I understand of the various sects, Protestants are those Western groups who have broken away either directly from the Catholic Church, or from those who broke from the Catholic Church or who broke from those who broke from those who broke from The Church, or etc. AND maintain some idea of Apostolic Succession, Trinitarianism etc.

Baptists are "evangelicals" as they reject Apostolic succession, but they are Trinitarians

Unitarians aren't really even Christians as they reject the basic tenets of Christianity and some seem akin to Judaism, while others are so wishy-washy, it's possible to just call them "peace dude" types. Mormons are a different matter.