slipnips t1_iu3z5sx wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Canada House of Commons unanimously agrees to describe residential schools as genocide by shpydar
> the Catholic religion
Or, as it is otherwise known to the rest of the world, Christianity.
joaommx t1_iu4ctyx wrote
Catholicism is just one, albeit the largest, of the Christian sects there are. So no, Catholicism and Christianity are not synonyms. And no, the rest of the world doesn’t hold the ignorant view that they are the same thing either.
slipnips t1_iu4ewkd wrote
I never said that they're synonyms, just that the Catholic religion is a somewhat unusual phrasing, which seems to distance Catholics from the umbrella of Christianity. I'll be equally puzzled if people talk about the Sunni religion instead of Islam.
joaommx t1_iu4ozb1 wrote
> just that the Catholic religion is a somewhat unusual phrasing
It's not, albeit Catholic church would be more correct. But it is entirely appropriate in this context given the overwhelming majority of residential schools were managed by it.
shpydar OP t1_iu45bjk wrote
I was raised Catholic (am non-theist now) Catholics do not see themselves as Christians. Christians are heathens who have persecuted the Catholics for centuries.
Hell, Europe fought a series of wars over this issue, even a World War between Catholicism and Christianity. Christians and other faiths may think of Catholics as Christians, but Catholics are not Christians and have never seen themselves as such.
joaommx t1_iu49mdm wrote
> Catholics do not see themselves as Christians.
What are you on? Sure they do. Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians are all Christians.
shpydar OP t1_iu4biw1 wrote
If that were true then explain the troubles? If Protestants and Anglicans think themselves the same as Catholics why did they opress and murder them simply because they were Catholics? May I point out the troubles only ended in 1998.
I also have linked to the holy wars between Catholics and Christians that were fought for over 200 years into the late 1800's.
The historic abuses against Catholics by other Christian sects is why Catholics do not see themselves as Christians, even if those sects think they are all one united Christian theocracy.
Also Eastern Orthodox Catholics do not consider themselves Christians as well.
joaommx t1_iu4c7kz wrote
Catholics and Protestants being of the opinion they are different from eachother has nothing to do with claiming Catholics don’t see themselves as Christians:
> Catholics do not see themselves as Christians
They do see themselves as Christians, like they see all the other Christian sects as Christians.
In fact it’s kind of the other way around from what you wrote. Some extremist nutcase Protestant sects are the ones who don’t see Catholics as Christians.
Grig134 t1_iu4otwp wrote
> Catholics do not see themselves as Christians.
Lol, what?
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