• MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I live in a highly religious part of the country. 79% of the state is some form of christian.

    I have had several conversations with people here who do not comprehend that catholics are christian. In fact I even had an argument about it here on Lemmy a while back. I wonder if someone will pop out again to try to tell me that catholics aren’t christians.

    • Machinist@lemmy.world
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      You may already know this, but is commonly taught by evangelical fundy Protestants that Catholicism isn’t Christianity. It is considered a polytheistic cult due to the praying to and veneration of saints. By these group’s definition: Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses are not Christians.

      Me? I think they all suck, but, I was raised by the fundies.

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        to be fair: the majority of each one of those branches also don’t consider any of the others to be christian as well.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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      That’s such lunacy. Just because your denomination is different doesn’t mean it has a monopoly on the religion. Catholics have that same vibe to me, just not as weird about it.