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The first chrisitanity was jewish christianity. Jews who believed he was the messiah and still kept a lot of their old 613 laws or various parts and stuck to same ideology. That lasted maybe 300 years tops if memory serves me right. It lost to what became syriaic and coptic christianity and then later the Catholic church. When the Romans stopped persecuting christians in 324 it changed a lot after that. Not to mention as time went on they wanted to fuether separate their religion from Judaism and started to literay make shit up and come up with new weird rulings. For example many from apostiñe times and the prophets like paul in NT spoke about keeping the old laws and jesús is is quoted as such to keep old laws etc. Later christians didnt like this because logically Jewish messianic christianity is not real judaism for a million reasons and is also too hard for many christians to follow. It isnt an opium of the masses and it to similar to where it came from judaism. Then christianity had split and various beliefs on divinity of jesus and what won out was trinity believers. Oh anf then the religion changed more.
I do agree though. Catholicism has made up most of its stuff and used religious leaxwrs and orders to create to their liking. Often drawing on old testament when it is convinent. But as ideology catholicism is a lot better in hierarchy and order sense. I dont respect protestants at all but barely respect catholic thought but see catholicism and eastern orthordoxy as closer to original christianity. And they are. The historic dislile of protestants to hate catholics is because if they accept catholics as real christians it defeats their even more foolish and warped version of the religion. The catholics stand on more written history, order and customs and closer to its original conception as it ev9lvrd for ots first hundreda of years as compared to main stream protestant sects.
Evangelicalism growing population is last i checked the only growing sect really of protestants and its tied to their appocalyptic and end times stuff which influences the minds of many who just want ot to all end and be saved.
But if you ask me what will prevail in the long term it is catholicism.
Confusing that you hold catholicism in higher regard when you state they've made up parts of their dogma, but have disdain for protestants when they claim scripture only.
That's like saying you respect the Jets more than the Jags because they're an older team.
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