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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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Platypuses and mammals.

Platypuses are mammals, but they're weird enough that you can't usefully generalise from them to anything else, to the point that lumping them in together could be actively misleading.

Same deal.

[–] livus@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait do you randomly drop "and platypuses" when you're talking about mammals??

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kind Sir, please never drop a platypus. I thank you kindly.

(Insert smirk for my dumb joke)

[–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Please never drop a platypus

for that could make it flat-ypus

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Nice!

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Platypuses are mammals, but they’re weird enough

We probably wouldn't consider them nearly as weird if they were more numerous than any other mammal species and lived all over the world. So their comparison to catholicism is weird.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Platypuses are mammals, but they’re weird enough that you can’t usefully generalise from them to anything else, to the point that lumping them in together could be actively misleading

I would argue that they're "lumpable" with other monotremes :)

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Sure. But monotremes are a subclass of mammal.