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> It would be much nicer if religious people would only use religion to measure those who are part of it, not those who are outside. Only speaking for Catholic
by sdegutis 10y ago
> It would be much nicer if religious people would only use religion to measure those who are part of it, not those who are outside.
Only speaking for Catholicism here, but the fact that official Catholic doctrine touches so heavily on so many areas of life, making objective and universal claims about human nature, means that Catholicism can't help but make assertions about people who aren't Catholic or even Christian. This tends to deeply piss off a lot of people, even when no individual Catholic is actually applying those principles to specific non-Christian individuals. In other words, many people tend to not it when religions have anything to say about people who aren't in that religion.
- mcguire 10y agoThere's a certain amount of amusement to be found when differing religions' assertions conflict. I'm thinking specifically of a certain elderly Irish Catholic gentleman's response to the LDS' efforts to retroactively save ancestors by means of genealogical research. He was more upset than I thought he would be, given that the process was completely off the wall from his viewpoint as I understood it.