• SaintOwlPizza25@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    Pope’s are Catholic. Christian don’t have pope.

    Years and years of Christianity and Catholics hating or just tolerating each other. I know first hand. My Dad Catholic, follows the Vatican and the pope word for word… tries to at least. My Mum raised Baptist and now, I have no idea. It’s all the same to me at the end of day. My family is a rainbow of all Christian/Catholic depending on the side of family.

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        Considering the thing thing that Protestants protested was catholic rule….

        It would be awkward if they were.

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          Catholicity, namely that your church is the unbroken chain back to St Peter, is claimed by several denominations not just Roman Catholics

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                  I get the quote but it was The Church of England that made this claim. It was necessary at the time because catholicity was important to people at the time who largely believed what the Holy See claimed was fact. If the CoE was the one true church then Henry’s sacking of Roman Catholic churches and monasteries to finance his wars and debts was righteous.

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                    I am fairly aware, I was raised in the church and my dad is an episcopal priest.

                    The history of the church was the last “fun” thing about church for me.

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        I said this to my Dad before and drilled me how Catholics are not Christian and my Mum will say the same.

        You’re probably right, my parents are crazy in my eyes. How they got married at all is a “miracle” lol

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            Probably not Republican White Jesus, which is why some would consider them not Christian.

            Absolutely guessing. I’m not an American so these weirdo Republicans don’t make sense to me.

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          That’s a common lie Protestant pastors tell their congregations in order to create an enmity between their people and Catholics. They do it for other Christian denominations too, like Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Seventh Day Adventists.

          Can’t have their income source go to a competing church, now can they?

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            Dafuq are protestants like in the USA? Protestants in Europe are usually quite liberal and do not antagonise any other faith.

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            Yeah - what SaintOwlPizza is saying is an extremely common belief in the American South.

            A lot of Bircher types were set off by the election of JFK. There were people who were genuinely concerned he was controlled by the pope. The current iteration of the KKK is about the least anti-Catholic it has ever been, historically they were extremely vocal advocates in favor of public education and not having religion in schools solely due to the popularity of Catholic schools.

            I definitely heard things very similar to what OwlPizza’s family said in Sunday school.

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            How I was brought up and yes I agree.

            Information is wrong, I see other replies with accurate information. I can tell them, but they are stuck in their ways.

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      Christian is actually a fairly new all encompassing word. Like Muslim there’s actually a ton of different “Christians”

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          That’s the point.

          When they first started they started as catholics. When then church was first established.

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            No, when they first started they were called Christians as Christian means follower of Christ whereas catholic means universal. The church now referred to as The Roman. Catholic Church got that name after the Great Schism.

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        Fairly new meaning almost two millennia?

        Early greek christians already called themselves Χρῑστῐᾱνός (christianos)

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          Lemme get this straight, 2 millenia they’ve been praising a guy before he was born??? Just asking…