Two Churches: a comparison of the Catholic and Protestant churches

Appearances, whether we enjoy the concept or not, will always be the basis by which humans judge things first. This is not a bad thing however, and can prove quite a useful habit of ours at times… The same way people often have a habit of growing to reflect their names, we create art and building’s to reflect the beliefs of the artists behind them. Whether those beliefs are commissioned or self-motivated, the work produced will always display a view point into one form of life so that people can see upon looking alone what is held dear by the people who created it. It’s why hospitals are clean and hotels are lavish, and why we’re going to expect specific friends houses to look a certain way before we see them. The same way all of this still applies to our life, the Catholic and Protestant Churches of the era surrounding the Reformation were designed by the people in the faith to represent the ideals of their religion, and you can see many of the differences between the two such as the belief in the supremacy of the Pope, the separate means of salvation, and the use of statues and pictures represented by the two simply by paying close attention to the detail in structures. By this time in history, there was a line of corrupt Pope’s littering amongst the Catholic faith, yet many people still continued to stay Catholic. Most likely, this is due to the specific Catholic belief of the power the Pope held. Papal Infallibility, or the belief that the Pope was and is unable to do wrong by the wishes of God, has always been a part of the Catholic religion, and so despite how terrible they were, people continued to believe and trust in them because it was their belief it was the will of God. The Protestants however, completely rejected this idea. They did not see the Pope as this supreme figure, and they denied his authority. Because of this, often displays in Catholic cathedrals and churches, one can find images of the Papacy throughout the years, however, one will never