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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Is this some sort of remnant of evangelical puritan protestant ideology?

I don't understaun this.

If you ask me, it'd make as much sense as Orthodox and Christians.... or Shia and Muslim...

I know not all Christians are Catholics but for feck's sake...

They're all Christians to me....

Edit:

It's a U.S thing but this is the sort of things I hear...

https://www.gotquestions.org/Catholic-Christian.html

I am a Catholic. Why should I consider becoming a Christian?

I now know more distinctions (apparently Catholicism requires duty and salvation is process, unlike Protestantism?) but I still think they're of a similar branch (Christianity) so I just wonder the social factor

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[-] toastus@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago

That is totally new to me.

Can you give me one or two of those many definitions for my understanding?

[-] John_McMurray@lemmy.world -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Many protestant churched consider themselves churches of Christ, Catholicism is the church of Paul, and isn't strictly monotheistic, trinitarianism and unitarianism aside. They pray to beings other than God as a matter of course. Anglicanism and Orthodox are the same religion as Catholicism. Most of the protestant churches are not. Then you have stuff like Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses which are a different thing again, if you call those Christian, then Islam is Christian (Jesus is an important prophet in Islam) but no one would say that.

[-] toastus@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago

Catholicism is the church of Paul, and isn't strictly monotheistic, trinitarianism and unitarianism aside.

That is just plain wrong, no two ways about it.

To me it sounds like you listened to some protestant that doesn't care much for the catholic church and just repeat his rant without questioning it much.

And don't get me wrong, I couldn't care less about christian infighting. I was just curious about the reasoning how the catholic church, which is one of the oldest and most "original" christian churches, could be considered not christian at all.
After your post I don't believe there is much basis to this claim at all.

[-] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

FFS read a book. I am Catholic, btw.

[-] toastus@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

So by your own claim you are part of the polytheistic church of Paul?
That just is not catholicism.
Which is so easy to prove because the catholics love to write down their many rules.

So I honestly would just answer right back at you:

FFS read a book.

And btw, while I have been an atheist for many years now, I was raised strictly catholic in a highly religious area by my catholic family that included a catholic nun and the headmaster of a catholic school and I intensively studied christianity before I made my break with this religion.

You can't bullshit me.

[-] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Oh look. An atheist that thinks he's clever but doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. How original.

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