(December 31, 2014 at 8:03 am)Alex K Wrote:(December 31, 2014 at 7:51 am)Godslayer Wrote: I have to laugh when these Protestants play the no true scotsman fallacy on Catholics. Like Catholicism is not the genesis of their faith or the reason why Christianity is popular...
Exactly my point, without the roman church, almost no one in Europe and by extension America would have ever heard of this Christ thing. With a bit of luck, it would now be considered an obscure side branch of Judaism for gentiles, maybe vanished and forgotten like hundreds of other cults that were practised in the roman empire. The roman church may be the evangelicals' estranged parent, but it is their parent.
The problem with them is that the protestant type see them as some other worshiper of another god when the fact of the matter is they believe in the same thing. They will even shame some Catholics into admitting they're not really Christians. They don't even see that they both believe in the same Abrahamic god with some caveats.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
