Christianity is a very broad term that encompasses Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodox Christianity. Just referring to all of it as "Christianity" glosses over huge differences between the sects.
First, Catholicism has doing good deeds as a firm tenet. Mother Theresa, Catholic schools, Catholic founded hospitals, and more are evidence of this.
Second, Protestantism arose due to the Catholic Church practices of selling indulgences. Basically, Catholic priests were taking bribes from wealthy men and absolving them of all our their sins so that they could get to Heaven. This is why Martin Luther was nailing his theses on the door in effect starting the Protestant Reformation.
Finally, Orthodox Christianity places far less weight on sin and predestination than the other two sects. Furthermore, Orthodox Christianity is fully against statue making of Orthodox leaders.
There are some generalizations without mentioning the pope, but hey, I like this thread and want to mention the differences before we all paint Christians in one light.
To the thread creator, who are you speaking to when you refer to Christians? Catholics? Lutherans? Baptists?
