What about Protestant traditions like:
- Infant baptism or adult baptism
- TULIP or Born Again
- Saturday is the Sabbath or Sunday is the Sabbath
- KJV or NIV or ??
- YEC
- Male pastors only or not
- Pastors (if they're to be trusted) really must be married or not
I guess at least with Protestantism you can pick and choose what traditions you want to orient your religious life around.
Interesting that a conservative would lambaste support for tradition. Pulling that line out of the Scriptures is a favorite of leftist Christians who want to flush everything down the memory hole and reinvent Christianity into some form of Marxism.
- YEC
And this is precisely why your church is circling the drain and won't recover.
In case some of you don't get it, the poster is claiming that young earth creationism ("YEC") is a "Protestant tradition," unknown until nineteenth century American fundamentalism.
That is a damnable lie.
During the Galileo episode, the Church condemned him precisely because his Copernican view of the cosmos denied Biblical inerrancy--the same Biblical inerrancy that Catholics now claim they have never believed in! Where, O where did all those liberals and homosexuals come from, I wonder? Could it be that discarding Biblical inerrancy started the whole thing?
As for "only Protestants," there are (believe it or not) a few Catholic and Orthodox sites on the Internet that claim and back up that the Bible was considered totally inerrant and mostly interpreted literally throughout history. Meanwhile, Chasidim in NYC are under attack for not wanting to be forced to teach their children evolution (and maybe Copernicanism?) in their private schools. And why don't you ask the Kutim (the "Samaritans") if all the Biblical stories are merely Aesop's fables? Yes, they are heretics, but they certainly give the lie to the idea that no one interpreted the Bible literally until the nineteenth century!
Meanwhile, our hypocritical poster neglects to mention the fact that the historical criticism of the Bible is also very much a "Protestant tradition," which means he should oppose it. But oh, this is a good Protestant tradition, isn't it? It must be, considering that each and every one of the ancient churches has now bought into to and promote it hook, line, and sinker (to prove that they're "not Protestants!"). They also seem to adore liberal Protestants, whom they can't get enough of. All the ancient churches schmooze with liberal Protestants--probably about how "dumb" those rednecks are. Or maybe liberal Protestants are all now honorary Catholics/Orthodox?
Any hypocrite who refuses to listen to a scientist who tells him that there is no such thing as a "virgin birth" had best shut up about other people who critique science more consistently. No Six Days of Creation (or Ark, or Tower of Babel)??? No "virgin birth," no "real presence," and no "resurrection!"