(December 30, 2014 at 8:37 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: He doesn't tick our preconceived boxes, and he doesn't seem to have had exposure to our common experiences either. It's like visiting a town without chain stores. Refreshing in that way.
Catholicism does work like this in my understanding. You're not required to believe to be part of the club. It makes a nonsense of the claim that so many billion Catholics make up a percentage of the world Christians. Theirs is an all inclusive club built more on tradition than belief. We've grown complacent here in our master race view of the world conforming to our narrow conception of it. We need to widen our views to better reflect reality.
Correct and let me add that Catholicism is not a club, or at least is not meant to be a club. It is a tradition and that is all it is.
To be a Christian is to be counted among the righteous while Catholics have the confessionals to prove that they are not.
