Asklemmy

43947 readers

969 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

222

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 Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

180 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] exanime@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You are correct, Catholics are a subset of Christianity... But similarly how people assume a "doctor" is a medical practitioner, Christians has become the informal name for "Protestant" or "evangelicals"

Basically "Christians" tend to mean, anything not "Catholic" (which is old school, visibly indistinguible from others in the Christendom)

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Basically "Christians" tend to mean, anything not "Catholic"

This is insanity. This is a purely American thing.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But if Eastern Orthodox counts as "Christian" while Catholicism doesn't, that destroys the reasoning. If Eastern Orthodox doesn't count, then you're just referring to Protestants.

I don't think there's any explanation other than anti-Catholic bias, Protestants just want to claim their way of doing Christianity is the only way.

[–] exanime@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't really know all the details dude... My answer was just based on observations I have made in America (north and south)

I do not think Eastern Orthodox counts as "Christians" either btw

In any case, there may be no logical reason as I believe it is just a matter of misuse of the terms... Exactly how an "American" is interpreted as "from the USA" and not "from any country in the American continent" which is actually the meaning

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Wow. Zero information.