[1] No, I have no idea why American "ultra"-Xian organisations think catholics aren't Xian, but there you go.
I'm coming around to the view that it's because Xian is being treated as synonymous with "good". In thinking about morals recently, I'm coming around to the idea that in general, people seem have a tendency to assume that they are good. They make the fallacy of assuming that anything they do must therefore also be good, and that things they disagree with must be bad. This extends to cover political and religious beliefs.
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Date: 2005-01-07 03:59 pm (UTC)I'm coming around to the view that it's because Xian is being treated as synonymous with "good". In thinking about morals recently, I'm coming around to the idea that in general, people seem have a tendency to assume that they are good. They make the fallacy of assuming that anything they do must therefore also be good, and that things they disagree with must be bad. This extends to cover political and religious beliefs.
Or, I'm completely wrong.