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Why are there so many different types of Protestants?

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Sunhawk posted...

Why are there so many different types of Protestants?

for the same reason that in the US you hear about marine dragon of the south kung fu, roaring ki tiger paw kung fu, electric bumblebee kung fu and other stuff like that, styles that only exist in the one dojo where a middle aged fat men with names like Scott Smith or Thomas Stone claims to be the top sifu who received these ancient secret deadly teachings from the shaolin abbot himself:

some things are not regulated in the US so everybody can open their own shingle and claim its the real deal and make business out of the people who dont truly know the history and technicalities of the subject matter (in other words no one at the shaolin abbot ever practiced electric bumblebee kung fu and if I tried to use my index finger as a stinger I would break it, now apply that to religion and you will get the idea)

tl;dr- lack of regulation

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SPE posted...

for the same reason that in the US you hear about marine dragon of the south kung fu, roaring ki tiger paw kung fu, electric bumblebee kung fu and other stuff like that, styles that only exist in the one dojo where a middle aged fat men with names like Scott Smith or Thomas Stone claims to be the top sifu who received these ancient secret deadly teachings from the shaolin abbot himself:

some things are not regulated in the US so everybody can open their own shingle and claim its the real deal and make business out of the people who dont truly know the history and technicalities of the subject matter (in other words no one at the shaolin abbot ever practiced electric bumblebee kung fu and if I tried to use my index finger as a stinger I would break it, now apply that to religion and you will get the idea)

tl;dr- lack of regulation

it's a little different in the case of kung fu -- basically any chinese martial art is a type of kung fu, so there are actually a bunch of different styles

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Because somewhere down the line, someone didnt like what their religion was selling so they made their own shit. Then someone else branched from that and so on and so on.

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averagejoel posted...

it's a little different in the case of kung fu -- basically any chinese martial art is a type of kung fu, so there are actually a bunch of different styles

my point being anyone can open their own shingle and create a style that cant actually be truly traced outside the US or even worse, outside of the one shop selling it (eg marine dragon kung fu only being known by sifu Joe).

many of these us-specific styles are the result of this:

Flauros posted...

Because somewhere down the line, someone didnt like what their religion was selling so they made their own shit. Then someone else branched from that and so on and so on.

or, to sound more jaded, in some cases people simply wanted the power and influence of being heads of a church and made their own style. Its hard to think that people like Paula Jones or Joel o steen are deeply spiritual people.


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