I seriously doubt that you're one of them if you are prepared to engage in limitless rationalization of how your particular tribe can do no wrong.
I'm Lutheran. We are the first to say that we are filthy sinners that cannot be absolved but for the grace of God. We are the OG protestants, catholic guilt has nothing on this shit. "Better a jew have a millstone tied around his neck and tossed into a river than convert one of our christian brothers." That is our tradition.
Call it rationalization if you like, there is a rational. A sturdy one. One that is stuck to fervently. Sola Scriptura. We don't bend the rules for political convenience. (Will admit, I'm not the best example here because I'm not a literalist, but I will go to war over the points made in the Catechisms.)
I'm Lutheran. We are the first to say that we are filthy sinners that cannot be absolved but for the grace of God. We are the OG protestants, catholic guilt has nothing on this shit. "Better a jew have a millstone tied around his neck and tossed into a river than convert one of our christian brothers." That is our tradition.
Call it rationalization if you like, there is a rational. A sturdy one. One that is stuck to fervently. Sola Scriptura. We don't bend the rules for political convenience. (Will admit, I'm not the best example here because I'm not a literalist, but I will go to war over the points made in the Catechisms.)