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Sunday, September 04, 2005

Catholics are Christian too you know

The Houston Chronicle has an Astrodome evacuee weblog. Check this out:

Houston-area clergy representing Catholic, Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths gave mini-sermons today for evacuees in the Houston Astrodome and surrounding shelters, which housed 25,000 people....


Aren't Catholics Christian? Obviously she meant Protestant, but this is an issue I've noted among evangelicals and southerners. It's like contrasting Hindu mythology vs. Christian beliefs. I am stickler for this sort of point because if we lose control of what "Christian" is we'll never be able to really address religious pluralism in this nation in an informed manner because people will just talk past each other. On a basic level this is just sloppiness, people who make this mistake know that Catholics are Christian, but they come from backgrounds where Protestants are the real Christians (I said background because I've talked to atheists of evangelical origin who slip up and make this error).

posted by Razib | 8:50 PM | 4 comments

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