• glitchdx@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Personally, I’m an atheist (anti-theist to be more precise), but I’ll say that in my experience catholic christians tend to be less culty than protestant christians. Probably has something to do with the part that catholics believe that they actually have to be good vs protestants believing that simply believing is all you need.

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      18 hours ago

      catholics believe that they actually have to be good vs protestants believing that simply believing is all you need

      Wtf ?

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        A doctrine of Catholicism is that you need good works as well as faith in order to get into Heaven. When Martin Luther broke away and started the Protestant movement, one of the big changes he made was to drop the “good works” part so that faith alone is sufficient to get into Heaven. (As I understand it, the argument behind this is that Jesus saves us from all of our sins already so therefore it does not matter how good or bad we are during our lives as long as we have faith.)

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        16 hours ago

        yes, seriously. this is a massive oversimplification, of course, but this is one of the major important differences between catholicism and protestantism.

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      Idk, Catholic services and practices are waaaay cultier than protestant ones. I mean, they all have pictures in their homes of the same white guy wearing a giant ceremonial hat and robe who lives in his own special nation. As a firm agnostic, I don’t have a horse in this race, but my experience differs greatly from yours. They’re all mild hobbyists compared to evangelicals anyway.

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        20 hours ago

        Then you get Anglicans and Lutherans which are Protestants but have Catholic practices

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        Cultish practices vary from church to church, but there’s way more protestant cults than catholic ones.

        And I mean proper cults, where they know how loony they seem, so they try to seem more normal to potential members. Then they love bomb newcomers, before inviting them to the special wednesday meetings where they promise supernatural powers if the newcomer is humiliated before the group and love bombed again when they’re most vulnerable. Last step is making them cut ties with non-believers and ostracizing any apostates.

        Catholic King making infallible decrees is harmless compared to that.

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          It’s debatable if those cults are even protestant (some don’t even fall under historical Christianity) as protestants are continuing groups that came out of the reformation, believing the Roman Church erred (Think Episcopal/Anglican, Presbyterian, Lutherans, Moravians, etc. They all stem from the pre reformation Catholic Church), while a lot of culty groups are like “yeah the past 2000 years the church was wrong so we are starting over again” (restorationists). But even them, some groups are still recognisably Christian (Baptists, most Pentecostals, non denomonational) believing in the historical Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the sacraments. Then you get the spinoff groups such as Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses. And then there are the in betweeners such as Quakers and SDAdventists where it’s debatable.

          Okay I’m just infodumping now. This isn’t relevant.

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          Yeah, those are tiny. There are millions and millions of Catholics in every nook and cranny of the Western world, and plenty of Eastern crannies as well. The previous POTUS, often called the “leader of the free world” was Catholic. If you think the opinion of the Vatican holds no sway over the course of society, you must have never seen any videos or photographs of the massive hoards of people standing beneath the papal balcony all the fucking time, just trying to get a glimpse of some geriatric virgin in a stupid outfit giving a pointless speech in a language they probably don’t understand. Confession is basically just emotional blackmail and psychic self-flagellation, not to mention they famously created the biggest pedophilia ring in known human history. Idk dude, seems pretty bad. And this is without even looking at the Wikipedia page, I can’t imagine the innumerable horrors committed on humankind over the last two millennia in the name, and by the power, of the Catholic Church.