00:00I am evangelical and never Catholic for three main reasons.
00:04The first reason is theological. Catholicism is a moralistic religion.
00:10Catholics must decisively cooperate in their own salvation through moral effort,
00:14sanctification, obedience, and good works. They lose their salvation with each mortal sin,
00:21which includes things like missing Sunday Mass, enjoying sexy music, or engaging in masturbation.
00:27While Catholics are required to live a tense and oppressive religious life,
00:32evangelicals can live a light and free one. In the evangelical religion, salvation is free and
00:37undeserved, received by faith in Christ alone and by his merits alone. Salvation is not lost through
00:44isolated sins, but through the deliberate rejection of faith. The evangelical principles of Solus
00:50Christus, Sola Grazia, and Solafide are anti-moralistic and liberating. The second reason is historical,
00:58social, and political. Catholicism is a reactionary, traditionalist, illiberal,
01:05obscurantist, misogynistic, authoritarian, anti-modern, oppressive, moralistic, and liberticidal religion.
01:13The Catholic Church engendered a total society in the Middle Ages, maintaining unity under the threat
01:19of the stake, and opposed fundamental freedoms, including freedom of conscience, well into the
01:24twentieth century. Protestantism, on the other hand, is one of the pillars of the modern free world.
01:31The third reason is psychological and intellectual. In matters of faith and morals, Catholicism requires
01:38its adherents to submit their intellect and will to the Church's magisterium. To be Catholic means,
01:43among other things, to sacrifice individual conscience and critical thinking. In contrast,
01:50the Protestant Reformation affirmed that the individual conscience must not submit to supposedly
01:54infallible human authorities, but only to God and to His Word, the Scriptures.
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