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Out of context: Reply #59
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kelpie - you raise some good points - Protestantism is definitely an offshoot and a reaction to Catholicism, both purportedly worship the same God and use basically the same text.
But the nature of worship is very different I think and the goal of both worship is different. One's spiritual being - regardless of belief or non-belief - is engaged with the world in a physical body, and worship practices define one;s relationship to the world. The world that Catholics live in is very different from the one Protestants live in in this sense - but becaus ethey share base similarities the differences are even more divisive - heresy essentially.
What defines religion? Base texts? Shared resource? Or practice, worship and the physical engagement with the real world as a result of those practices?