Anthea Butler

Protestants attacked Catholics during the 1844 Nativist riots in Philadelphia. Guess what that was about? Anti-immigrant sentiment. Back then, it was the influx of Irish Catholics into the city. Now, it's Donald Trump clinging to a bygone notion of Protestant ascendancy and nativist sentiments, when mainline Protestantism is on the wane in the U.S.

American Educator

Max Stirner

Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, 'conscience,' watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a 'matter of conscience,' i.e. police business.

German Philosopher

Frances McDormand

I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

American Actress

Carl Frampton

In boxing we're allowed to come togethwe. Protestants and Catholics, the north and south, everyone. I'm in an Irish vest, even on a mural in Tiger's Bay, because boxing brings the communities together.

Irish Boxer

Stanley Hauerwas

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

American Theologian

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

Marquis de Lafayette

Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.

French Revolutionary

Robert Duvall

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

American Actor

Tony Campolo

Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.

American Clergyman

Understanding 'protestant' involves knowing its origin in the Reformation, when it split from Catholicism.

Historical Roots

'Protestant' covers many different churches, not just one, united by common beliefs and separate from the Catholic Church.

Broad Category

The term 'protestant' isn't just religious; it also carries significant cultural and historical connotations.

Cultural Impact

'Protestant' as an adjective distinguishes things related to Protestantism from those of Catholicism.

Not Catholic

'Protestant' encompasses diverse practices and beliefs, reflecting various denominations' traditions.

Variety of Practices

Places can be described as 'protestant' to indicate the predominant religious community present.

Identifying Communities

 They were the victims of paranoia about the supernatural, misdirected religious fervor— and a justice system that valued repentance over truth. Salem was settled in 1626 by Puritans, a group of English protestants.

What really happened...

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