Do you considered Catholics and Lutherans to be more similar or different?

[Anonymous]

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they sometimes killed each other. They considered themselves opposites. What do you think?

More similar.

Totally different.

I don't know.

[OlderAndWiser]

I am a Lutheran and I have been a Lutheran for 23 years. I have attended weddings, funerals, and traditional Sunday services at Catholic services. Being a Lutheran, I tended to focus on the differences and I thought they were significant. However, if a Baptist or Methodist attended both churches, they would see far more similarities than differences, and they would be right.

[BCRanger10]

Comparatively speaking, they will have more in common with each other than most other churches. There are however still significant differences, such as what they believe about the Bible and Tradition, how they view Mary, how they view Holy Communion, and a host of others.

[NamerOfStars]

They're different sects of the same branch of the same faith; you have to be VERY close to see the differences in anything beyond the external trappings. Unfortunately, every faith ever has treated its heretics worse than its heathens.

[ArtemisSilver]

Seems pretty foolish to fight over petty details while darkness closes in from all sides.

[strateguy632]

more differs