MasterDestroyer

What a nation says on paper isn't always evenly enforced. Where ROC really shines though is that it attracts a lot of american converts.

The issue with most lutheran denominations is ecclesiology. The state-church model and congregationalist model just doesn't work. Presbyterians proved this by staying conservative longer but ultimately the LCMS model is the strongest imo. It mimics congregationalism on ground level but ultimately runs itself like business that has very specific policies. The LCMS staying conservative and confessional proves that it isn't protestant doctrine that is the problem, its the typical forms of protestant ecclesiology, but when its done right it works.

I don't take the catholic church seriously for many reasons, namely because it CAN'T be the true church. It dogmatically affirms libertarian free will. It contradicts its own teachings and whores itself to other religions.

You can't lecture me about "valid clergy" when you are in a church that thinks muslims can be saved. There are already liberal denominations of lutheranism in the US, they operate fundamentally different from LCMS though. The LCMS literally hasn't budged, the catholic church is way more liberal and failed as a church than LCMS because your pope is a religious pluralist who sucks up to muslims and jews.

Also "confessional lutheran" isn't about "going to confession". It is confessional because it follows the lutheran doctrinal confessions, the confessions of faith outlined in the book of concord.

Jesus literally said "this is my body". "evangelical" heretics are the ones going against the plain reading of scripture. "Yes lets take scripture super literally about everything until it mentions sacraments".

Also saying that sacraments are just a metaphorical symbol is something that literally no one ever believed until well after the protestant reformation, other views like sola scriptura and sola fide exist on a spectrum and you can find church fathers saying all sorts of stuff but sacraments being nothing but metaphors wasn't even a view any historical christian took seriously. Not even Zwingli himself was that extreme.

I'm well aware that I have listed four, I have particularly strong opinions about those four but I could speak on others. There are also much less denominations if you exclude trinitarian/christological heresy sects, individual factions within single denominations, and different institutions which all fall under umbrellas like "lutheran" or "presbyterian". In fact once you do that there are only like 12 denominations.

Yes, the term "evangelical" has been hijacked by sacrament-denying schismatics

LCMS (lutheran church missouri synod)

This is the best denomination on earth. It is proof that protestantism can remain conservative without becoming "evangelical", relegated to a tiny minority or schismatic. I realized that only the Reformed and Lutheran traditions can be true because libertarian free will is definitely false, and my initial instinct was to gravitate to reformed due to their higher view of reason. I have come to realize however, that adding your own ideas to scripture just because they make sense to you results in a man-made religion rather than a revelation based one. John Calvin was guilty of doing major mental gymnastics to reinterpret what scripture clearly says in a way that makes more sense to him, resulting in Nestorianism among other errors.

Russian Orthodox

My second most respected christian tradition. Why russian specifically? Because they are the most polemical against the 3 great cultural cancers: Islam, cultural marxism and "evangelical" christianity. Greek Orthodox is more focused on coexistence rhetoric, even going so far as to claim muslims worship the same god like the utterly compromised roman catholic church does. Beyond theological reasons, ROC is not number one for me because although removing the 3 cancers is good, replacing them with russia isn't exactly ideal. I am in favor of replacing them with scandinavian style social democracy minus the secularism and lax sexual morality.

Roman Catholicism

The Roman Catholic Church is a bloated corpse of christian orthodoxy full of virtually endless man made doctrines that they keep making up as they go along. Their poster boy Thomas Aquinas was an aristotelian philosopher first and a christian second. The Papacy's ahistorical and overblown claims to authority are a testament to the extent of human pride. Rome has cucked its theology to Jews and Muslims, reversing and contradicting centuries of dogma just to sound nicer. In an age when muslims are actively trying to replace western civilization, and the increasingly secular west needs a strong cultural backbone more than ever, the roman catholic church promotes religious pluralism and syncretism.

PCA (presbyterian church in america)

Let me be perfectly clear, I have very little respect for "evangelicalism". Even the fact they are called evangelical is an insult to the gospel. The PCA is just as much baptist as it is presbyterian, if not more. I have attended a PCA church and their treatment of the sacrament of the lord's body and blood was downright disrespectful and dismissive. If you do not believe in some form of sacramental realism or efficacy you are not a christian. Not to mention the PCA formed via schism from the PCUS in 1973 because they were mad that the PCUS stopped practicing racial segregation.