It is a challenge to be Catholic. Our Catholic Churches are filled with reminders of Holy Men, Women, and Angels. Catholic Saints are a continual reminder: “I must be better!” Catholics take Christ’s challenge.
Protestant Churches avoid such reminders. “We are fine the way we are. We do not want to be reminded of Catholic Martyrs. We believe in Jesus, but not that much!”
Protestantism had to invent a way to avoid God’s obedient Saints. The pioneering Profiteers of Protestantism attacked the Holy Saints. They announced, “Catholics worship idols!”
The more gullible Protestants were eager to believe that grotesque lie. “Yes! Those Catholics worship idols! That’s why they have all those paintings, stained glass windows, and statues of obedient Saints. They worship idols!” That gave them an excuse to remove such reminders from the buildings of their 45,000 Marketing Plan Denominations.
Protestantism reduced the holiest and most obedient followers of Jesus into “idols”. Catholics snicker at such self-serving silliness. “Those poor Protestants think they can get into Heaven without obedience!”
The Profiteers of Protestantism don’t care! “We can get into Heaven if we have a ‘personal relationship’ with Jesus!” Many of them repeat that. “Jesus has to let me into Heaven because I say that I have a ‘personal relationship‘ with Him!”
Catholics think more intelligently: “Jesus never said that we may be saved if we think we have a ‘personal relationship’ with Jesus. Jesus did say, “You are My friends if you obey My commands.”
Protestants avoid reminders of Saintly obedience! “I can get into Heaven! All I have to do is repeat, ‘I believe in Jesus!’ over and over.”
Their churches have become praise-providing social clubs. “I worship with my friends and family. They are more important to me than a lot of Catholic Saints. Many of them suffered agonizing deaths rather than disobey Jesus and The Only Church He Founded! I don’t want to end up like them!”
They won’t.
