(In fact the footnote was quickly assembled to show that *I* didn't have anything against catholics, and hadn't properly thought about it.)
I'm coming around to the idea that in general, people seem have a tendency to assume that they are good.
It sounds obvious, put like that :) But it sounds a reasonable interpretation. Certainly many of the arguments against catholics seem like justifications, and the absense of the concept of working with and accepting opponents is noticable in, say, politics.
It's a bit of a morass, because some people would say a christian was someone who 'lived in a relationship with god', so lots of people would *think* they were christian, but actually be frauds, which makes it hard to refer to 'apparent christians'.
I was going to say Catholics seem to be singled out, though I guess other christian 'sects' like Mormons get very stereotyped too, though some sects deserve it.
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Date: 2005-01-07 04:16 pm (UTC)I'm coming around to the idea that in general, people seem have a tendency to assume that they are good.
It sounds obvious, put like that :) But it sounds a reasonable interpretation. Certainly many of the arguments against catholics seem like justifications, and the absense of the concept of working with and accepting opponents is noticable in, say, politics.
It's a bit of a morass, because some people would say a christian was someone who 'lived in a relationship with god', so lots of people would *think* they were christian, but actually be frauds, which makes it hard to refer to 'apparent christians'.
I was going to say Catholics seem to be singled out, though I guess other christian 'sects' like Mormons get very stereotyped too, though some sects deserve it.