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What do Christians believe?
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Protestant Christians

There are approximately 1 billion Protestant adherents worldwide or about 37% of all Christians. A Protestant is an adherent of any Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group descended from them.

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  1. Protestant Worship
    Protestant worship varies between denomination, but centres on the Bible.
  2. Protestant History/schism
    Protestants split from the Catholic church in the 16th century.
  3. Protestant Clergy
    Women are allowed in the Protestant clergy, and priests can marry.
  4. Protestant Holy books
    Protestants place most of their belief in the Bible, without the reverence for church tradition that Catholicism or Orthodoxy have.
  5. Politics and attitudes to equality
    Protestant churches tend to be more liberal than others.
  6. Protestant Miscellaneous beliefs
    Protestants do not believe in purgatory and believe Catholics over-idolise the Virgin Mary.
  7. What do Protestants believe?
    Protestants believe in a union with God Almighty without the interjection of the middle man, i.e. the priest. While ministers are knowledgeable and blessed enough to help man interpret the Scripture, the relationship between God and man himself is holy and has no space for saints or any other intermediary.