Catholicism and Protestantism

I’m not knowledgeable enough, but it seems to me that the distribution of Supreme Court justices in the US doesn’t teach much. They are elected by a political mechanism that selects whoever suits them. It’s far from being a representative sample, both in terms of its scope and because of their selection methods.
In fact, Protestantism has two faces that seem contradictory. On the one hand, its entire essence is conservatism, against innovative Catholicism. Catholics think that the Pope and the church institutions have the authority to change dogmas and principles, and Luther and Calvin’s protest went against this in itself. Protestants strive to return to the sources of the past without the innovations that were added later. But that is precisely why Protestants are more diverse than Catholics. Because no one knows what was in the past (everyone paints the past as they see it, and then sticks to it), and we do not stick to the accepted in the present because it is not valid, then many sects with different and strange shades are formed, and that is why this happens precisely in the “conservative” Protestant world. In contrast, Catholicism is more uniform, since it is run by centralized institutions (in Rome). That is why the most extreme and dark phenomena appear precisely in the Protestant world (the Bible Belt and Christian fundamentalism, the KKK, etc.).
By the way, a similar difference exists between Shia and Sunni in Islam. Shia is Catholicism and Sunni is Protestantism. And note that even there, the more extremists are Sunnis, like Protestants in Christianity.
By the way, it’s the same with us. The youth of the hills and the women of the Shalem and other extreme phenomena are actually calling for conservatism and a return to the past (to herd sheep, to disconnect from technology and to wear the clothes of the tenth century BC), but because they have no governing institutions and they disbelieve in contemporary authorities, they are more extreme and in many ways also more diverse. Conservatism and a return to the past create diversity and not uniformity. Even the ultra-Orthodox, which many have written is a new phenomenon (and not conservative, in this sense), is now perceived as conservative because it is painted in a relatively uniform color and does not allow for much diversity. This was the case at least as long as there was a leader in the capital. In recent years, this has changed because there is also a phenomenon of protest and a lack of agreed leadership. And of course, there, too, Protestantism only makes them more extreme.