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Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hundreds of years of infighting

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thousands really.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Protestantism hasn't even existed for a thousand years. Heck, even the Great Schism between Eastern Orthodox and Romans Catholicism churches happened less than a thousand years ago (though that should become no longer true within our lifetimes).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Infighting, as in, within itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but this thread isn't about infighting among Christians broadly, it's specifically about the use of "Christian" and "Catholic" in a context where they seemingly mean different things.

To be honest I find most of this thread incredibly frustrating, because so many people are explaining Christian schisms to OP, as though they don't already know about that. But that's not what they asked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was responding to the thread not the OPs question. May be frustrating for you but that was the context for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This thread was still about Catholics and Protestants, not broader conflicts among Christians.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's like progressives and liberals 1000 years from now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

If any of this recognizably lasts 1000 years I’ll have a better opinion of it, ancient egypt is still smirking at us