Republicans have been critical of the Orange Order and other Protestant marching groups for refusing to talk to Catholic residents in the areas where parades take place.

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While Catholics were busy burning witches and Lutherans and other protestant groups were busy taking all the fun and mysterious things out of Christianity, Anglicans were busy walking the tightrope between.

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As with many other Protestant countries, the UK has a tradition of seeing drinking as an exciting vice rather than something more everyday, such as a glass of wine with food.

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But the Anglicans and other old Protestant churches are losing ground to the Pentecostalists.

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Like other mainline Protestant churches, the ELCA's membership has shrunk, by 10.5% from 1998 to 2008.

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This sentiment is felt not only among Catholics but also among Jewish, Protestant and other religious groups.

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We appreciate the support by the Pope, his fellow Catholic Bishops in the United States, and their Protestant, Jewish and other faith colleagues.

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Some revisionist history can leave the reader up in the air, wondering why, in the light of the historian's myth-busting, Catholic and Protestant bothered to quarrel with each other at all.

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He has used an impressive range of sources to show how Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter came to fear each other, and how the latter two became fused, though not entirely merged, in the common battle against the growing might of the Catholic hierarchy in the 19th century.

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Nor is it the willingness to go onto part-time working to preserve jobs in the downturn, the Protestant work ethic, the large manufacturing sector or any of the other things that people are musing about.

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