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  • Other than covered dish dinners and coffee between services, most have communion and baptism.
  • Protestantism unfortunately lost a lot of its ritual, as the Reformers were succeeded by less- educated and aware followers, and there were much over-reaction all the way through to the abuse of ritual in the 'old" Catholic Church which they sought to reform. As Protestants moved from the East Coast across the USA there was less structure: "ritual' was associated with the kind of ignorant bigorty against Catholicism which crossed the Atlantic with the immigrants to these shores. Significantly, Free Masonry and today's football rituals (cheerleaders, uniforms, bands and songs) provide the natural, healthy normal need for humans to have ritual for worship as well as cultural activity! The medieval dramas and "morality plays" are a major source of today's theatre. Since the reform of the Catholic Church, begun in the 1960s, and the TV presentation of Catholic Masses, especially when the Popes travel wordwide, there is a return to a lot of what was once shunned, such as the nativity scenes outside Protestant churches, ministers wearing colored robes other than the traditional black and many others. The TV coverage of the funeral of Catholic JFK in 1963 led to a closed casket for many Protestants who usually had an open casket at the church service!
  • It depends on what denomination and what church. Protestantism is not united.
  • There is no "Protestant religion". There are Christian denominations that are considered to be Protestant. Protestantism is adhering to the beliefs of A Protestant church, of which there are quite a few.
  • Protestants have done away with most of the insignificant rituals which prevailed in the old order of the church. They did away with the idols and icons. Except for the ritual of communion & baptism I don't think there is anything to be followed. The Word of God and how faithfully we follow it should be of utmost importance. Our faith should be firm and our spiritual contact with the LORD should be stronger. Love, Hope and Peace with all.
  • Not that many really. I mean, there are babtisms and things, but not nearly as many rituals as the catholics have, such as mass.
  • Virgin sacrifices
  • Going door to door in polyester slacks, a short sleeve shirt and a tie with a breif case with nothing but a book of old stories about dead people and some idiotic pamphlets in it and pretending to know more than anyone else, particularly in reference to their imaginary friends.
  • Oh and lets not forget, getting themselves so worked up over nothing that they can't help falling to the floor, shaking around and speaking in some nonsense, made up non-language.
  • Tithing: giving money to the church so it can buy gold candlesticks.
  • In addition to tomsims answers (covered dish dinners, coffee, communion and baptism), the various protestant denominations also have in common: prayer, the lord's prayer, singing hymns, weddings, and celebrating Christmas and Easter. Candles and flowers are common for decorative rather than religious significance.
  • As someone else said, Protestant isn't the religion. Christianity is the religion. Originally, Catholicism was the only Christian church for most folks in the world, although there was the Greek Orthodox church in that region of the world. The Russian Orthodox is pretty old too. When Gutenburg invented the printing press, suddenly more people had access to a Bible and they realized that the Roman Church had moved away from the Bible and they protested, forming their own churches. Hence the Protestant name. Many of the rituals that were common to Catholicism are still common in the Protestant churches. We still have Baptism although it is adult baptism for some churches. For those who still baptize infants, there is still first communion when they are old enough to understand what they are doing, and confirmation when they are old enough to accept the baptism that was done for them. We still have the sacrement of marriage. We still have regular community worship. We still confess sin, either to God or to one another or both. We still have holy communion. We still have funeral services for the dead. We don't just chuck them in a hole unblessed.

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