(August 9, 2017 at 5:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I consider members of all christian denominations christians as well. I dont like it when other Christians say that Catholics aren't Christian.
Good for you, I still would argue you don't need a god at all, but this certainly is progress. If you hold the position that the God of the bible is real and Jesus is the son of that God, it does not matter if you are a conservative Baptist, liberal Baptist, Protestant, Mormon, Amish ect ect, all of you still share the same core heros and same book.
Now to be fair, I don't like it when atheist pull this crap either, but we do. You also have atheists who will say, "no atheist would". With atheist though, the only thing we have in common is "off" and that is it. Outside that we differ as well in our political views, economic views and classes.
I am an atheist, but so was Ayn Rand who, if alive today would either vote Libertarian or GOP of which neither I like. I know other atheists who value Che, the asshole who lead to Castro's Cuba, and I don't like him either. I know atheists whom worship firearms on par with the far right Christians and others who want to ban them all, and again, I am no fan of either of those positions.
Just like most of the west, both left and right would agree that both Sunni and Shiite share the same core heros and same core book.
Point being, how we as individuals wish another individual whom shares the same label would behave, does not change the thoughts in their head.
