Given such differences, it makes sense to consult learned authorities, from early Church fathers to modern experts. When pressed, most Protestants accept such an approach, but they decline to admit that the Catholic Church or any church should develop a body of consistent doctrine and teaching.
The result is a theological shallowness to American Protestantism and its reduction of Christianity to a set of lifestyle constraints and recommendations for better living. This leaves room for odd bits like the Prosperity Gospel and the Left Behind series to enjoy runs of popular enthusiasm among the Protestant faithful.
Meanwhile, Catholicism is experiencing its own crisis in the developed world due to clerical misconduct and widespread apostasy, with internal divisions between modernist thinking and traditional, Bible based Christian faith. And the entire developed world based on science and reason finds itself under assault by enemies ancient and modern, declining in population, and with a diminished and cramped view of the future and of the nature of humanity itself.
Call it a Catholic fantasy, but I think that the leading nations of the world need to be evangelized by Christians both Catholic and Protestant, putting their differences aside in Christian brotherhood. To accomplish that requires not just that Protestants and Catholics make peace, but that Protestants develop coherent theological doctrines and make peace with reason and science.
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Reason is not a way of understanding the scriptures.
The only way to understand a passage of scripture is to read the plain words under the Holy Spirit.
The age of anointed apostles has been over for 1900 years.
Its not so difficult unless you want the word to support something humanistic, as the catholic church intrinsically demands, which the word of God cannot do.