I like a lot of what you said, but I was not sure what you meant when you talked about Protestantism and divorce. It seemed that you were saying Protestantism arose from a reaction to culture's view on divorce. That, because the Catholic Church did not allow divorce, a sect broke off (Protestant) that allowed divorce. This is not the case. In a commentary on the book of Matthew, Martin Luther (the originator of the Protestant Reformation) said,
"Those who want to be Christians are not to be divorced, but each to retain his or her spouse, and bear and experience good and evil with the same, although he or she may be strange, peculiar and faulty; or, if there be a divorce, that the parties remain unmarried; and that it will not do to make a
"Those who want to be Christians are not to be divorced, but each to retain his or her spouse, and bear and experience good and evil with the same, although he or she may be strange, peculiar and faulty; or, if there be a divorce, that the parties remain unmarried; and that it will not do to make a