I still might debate the role of ritual in Catholicism, Eastern & Oriental Orthodoxy, > No karma to optimize but I actually had the more karmic things in mind

I still might debate the role of ritual in Catholicism, Eastern & Oriental Orthodoxy, > No karma to optimize but I actually had the more karmic things in mind, i.e the importance of Works vs importance of Faith, which certainly does vary between different Christian sects. > No hidden knowledge to uncover. There are gnostic types of things. If perhaps less so today than in the Renaissance. But it's not as if it's absent. So I still think this is a rather Protestant perspective. Edit to say: Also, in fact even or perhaps even especially, Protestants were engaged in gnosticism/Christian mysticism in the Renaissance period.