Posted on 08/19/2012 1:51:28 PM PDT by NYer
Ping!
One in which the government as a whole, supports Christianity.
Does ours?
Problem: There is little or no evidence that Catholics in America, as a group, are more attached to biblical morality than Protestants, particularly conservative Protestants.
Not that this is saying much.
I’d bet that the majority of Americans could honestly confess the Apostles’ Creed.
I can’t prove it, but I think so. At least all adult Americans.
Which would make this a Christian country, in the cited author’s opinion.
Reads more like wishful thinking that those “pesky” Protestants will finally go away.
Maybe the U.S. should be more like France, a country whose history is saturated with Catholic morality and dominance as well as the blood of those the Catholic church deemed “heretics”.
Last time I checked our Government has been a secular plus
the seperation of church and state thing.
A different alternative would be that conservative Protestants and Roman Catholics meet in conclave to end the 500 year old Reformation schism in the Christian communion.
Many Protestant faiths today have almost forgotten why they split off from each other and the Catholic church. As such many could merge without offense until perhaps just a few remained.
The liberals, of course, would reject such a reunion entirely, as it would be done under the auspices of faith and shared belief, instead of for the purposes of the leftist agenda. But without the conservatives, the religions of liberals evaporate as inconsequential.
The end result would still be the Catholic church and one or more Protestant faiths, but no longer in contention and argument.
Your description might fit France in the 17th Century or before, but Catholicism in France has been in serious decline since the revolution.
Merge into the Catholic Church, right?
Thus “Catholic morality” is in no way superior to any Protestant morality.
In practice or on paper?
Unlikely, at least at first. Several Protestant denominations could merge with each other first.
But even a potential merge between the Catholics and Anglicans, who are very doctrinally similar, and wanted by many in both faiths for a very long time, has only recently become possible, after a fashion. Anglicans can now “become Catholic”, while still practicing their Anglican version.
Anyone can talk a good fight but the practice is what tells the tale.
Overall, is there a great difference between Catholic and non-Catholic in abortion rates or premarital sex, etc.?
I doubt there is.
You can tell the quality of what a church teaches about Christianity, by which party it’s adherents vote for.
The Catholic church, Episcopalians and other liberal churches produce voters who support the left’s morals and they vote for that.
Yes, liberal sympathizers the whole lot of them.
I would make a distinction between mainline Protestants and the growing number of Evangelical Protestants.
Ah, yes, the Protestants are the reason America is going down the toilet! Fr. McCloskey, as the nuns used to tell us in grade school, "Clean off your OWN doorstep before you try to clean off someone else's."
What's with you guys this weekend? Beat up on those Protties so you can feel better about yourselves? So far, you are NOT scoring any points and I highly doubt our Heavenly Father is pleased.
When the Rapture happens, we WILL go away - to be with the Lord!
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