I read the link, then the comments...my question is this...
Why do catholics and protestants hate each other so much?
You must have also been reading historical news about Ireland! lol
In brief:
The
disagreement is where the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) claims that it has been given the exclusive right to teach and preach and that the pope is God's Vicar (official spokesman on earth). All people are to become subject to papal directives and for many years the RCC taught that Salvation could not be obtained outside of the RCC faith. This was not put into effect until Rome usurped Christian teachings under the rule of Constantine and the RCC religious hierarchy developed.
On the other hand, the Protestants disagree with the RCC's exclusivity and control over the masses (pun intended). Protestants agree with the sole Biblical teaching of Christ that one is saved by faith in Him alone and that by being born-again of the Holy Spirit one becomes a Child of God. Protestants do not believe that mankind comes to God through abiding by the changing rules of the RCC, its traditions, its claim to exclusive apostolic succession, and its extra-Biblical teachings that interject reverence to Mary and Patron Saints as methods of being in touch with God.
Protestants do not agree nor believe that upon Communion the wine literally turns to the blood and the wafer literally becomes the flesh of Jesus.
These are but a few things that Protestants pointed out during the Reformation period and for that the RCC put them to death.
Protestants
do not "hate" Catholics;
they disagree with them on their obligatory faith in what the Vatican teaches rather than what the Holy Bible alone teaches.
There was a warning to the first-century Christians that other teachings would be introduced which were not truthful teachings:
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!
Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. (Galatians 1:6-10)