Reinventing the Wheel

 

I would say that it is odd that so many people identify as “spiritual but not religious” but this mentality fits perfectly with the Protestant idea of individualism. Because this idea is the foundation to Western culture, what we are seeing today is the fruit of that misguided thought. It began en masse when Luther and Calvin went solo from the church in Rome. There is no argument that the Roman church had greatly deviated from the historic Christian faith.

Instead of trying to start a new church, Luther and Calvin (and the Anabaptists as well) should have connected with the rest of the body of Christ, that is, the churches in Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople/Moscow. Rome was an unfortunate deviation / break off from the rest of Christendom. The creation of Protestantism was a tragic mistake that has led to a terrible global splintering of those who take upon themselves the label of Christian.