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The bad news is that for more than a hundred years, and even longer in England, religious wars occurred between Catholics and Protestants.  Tragically, Christians killed other Christians over religious differences.  To this day the division between Catholics and Protestants weakens Christianity in several respects and makes it easier for enemies of Christianity to prevail.  Often anti-Christians will try to drive a wedge between Christians and cause disagreements that would not otherwise arise, in order to gain advantage against all Christians.
 
The bad news is that for more than a hundred years, and even longer in England, religious wars occurred between Catholics and Protestants.  Tragically, Christians killed other Christians over religious differences.  To this day the division between Catholics and Protestants weakens Christianity in several respects and makes it easier for enemies of Christianity to prevail.  Often anti-Christians will try to drive a wedge between Christians and cause disagreements that would not otherwise arise, in order to gain advantage against all Christians.
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The competition between Catholics and Protestants continues to this day, and may have some benefits.  Both Catholics and Protestants face internal challenges and the competition may help them rise to their best.  In modern times, the Catholic Church was originally the leader against [[abortion]], but evangelical Protestants quickly opposed it also.  Meanwhile, evangelical Protestants were the leaders in rejecting the theory of human evolution (e.g, the American William Jennings Bryan in the 1920s).  Later, in the papal encyclical “Humani Generis” (1950), the Catholic Church agreed with the Protestant criticism, and prohibited teaching evolution contrary to the biblical Adam, but Catholic schools routinely teach evolution anyway.  Most churchgoing Christians oppose same-sex marriage and agree on most social issues.  But non-churchgoing Christians of all denominations can be liberal on social issues.
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Protestants are on average wealthier than Catholics and tend to support free enterprise more, and evangelical Protestants are often more vocal on social issues.  Catholics generally prohibit divorce, while Protestants allow it.  American Protestants tend to oppose immigration more than Catholics do, while Catholics tend to oppose the death penalty more than Protestants do.
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Politically, Catholics voted for Barack Obama in higher percentages than Protestants did, but traditionally in America Catholics have long been associated with the Democratic Party while Protestants have long been associated with the Republican Party.  Also, wealth and ethnicity play a role in voting patterns, and American Catholics tend to be poorer and more ethnically diverse than American Protestants.  In European countries, such as Germany, Protestant regions (as in the former East Germany) tend to be more liberal than Catholic regions (as in the former West Germany).  For both Catholics and Protestants, the more time one spends in church each week, the more conservative the person tends to vote.
      
==Asia in the Middle Ages==
 
==Asia in the Middle Ages==
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