I was just doing a thought experiment about when the Literal First Trans Person was born & it came down to “when did humans invent gender roles that generally mapped with reproductive biology, because like 5 minutes after that”
The least important thing here but also v. hilarious that in their rush to be anti trans they forgot they’re supposed to acknowledge that Catholics are Christians now that they want to unite in the ecumenism of bigotry.
I understand that some misinformed people *say* that. But it’s one of only a few “someone was wrong on the Internet” events that I will take on every time.
I think this was a legit question from the asker & I gather they are not in the US.
Right. What I’m saying is that it’s not a few misinformed people on the internet. Like someone said below, it’s an evangelical anti-Catholic thing, and from the text quoted up there, it looks like that’s the brand of Christianity trump’s spokesperson is using.
Baptist, southern Baptist, Westboro Baptist, catholic, evangelical, methodist, seven day, Morman, protestant, eastern orthodox, latter day saints, church of maga, angelicanism, jehovahs witness, I'm sure there's more but that's what I see just here in Oklahoma
I get you, I just thought it weird phrasing and read it as Catholic being different from Christian when, over here, they're just different flavours of the same thing.
Some protestant & Baptists denominations do not consider Catholics or Mormons to be Christian.
Some do not consider Catholics to be Christian, but also believe that only churches that have maintained apostolic succession are Christian.
Some Baptists do not consider themselves to be protestants.
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Evangelicals have never liked Catholics unless/until people like that bishop who had to be removed with a crowbar, and the SCOTUS justice wedged onto the court gang in with them. For ex., my 6th grade teacher told the class that Catholics are idol worshippers. See also: JFK.
they're all entirely different, lol even though they all use the same bible. Even the catholic ones here are probably unrecognizable from the ones where you're at, because extremists have changed and altered the belief system so much.
Many American Protestants, especially Evangelicals, have a longstanding commitment to using unmarked "Christian" to mean their own brand of Christianity, and especially to separating out Catholics, who many of them have historically categorized as following an evil distortion of the faith.
When you see "nondenominational Christian" or "Bible-believing Christian" that almost always means right-wing Evangelicals. Likewise, there's decades of teaching that the Pope is the Antichrist, etc. They've only eased up on it since the surge of hard-right "Tradcaths" has made for new allies there.
There's a racialized and nativist element too, in a lot of North America; Catholicism has historically been associated with Latines and Italian and Irish immigrant communities who had to buy into whiteness. I grew up around a lot of Protestants who treated Catholicism as dirty, foreign, and suspect.
Not only that but it's exceedingly Christian of President Biden to acknowledge an "outcast" segment of society for Easter. Seems fairly similar to some story I once heard about some guy washing some prisoners' feet. I don't know, that story probably isn't known to "real" 'Muricans.
Who cares that it’s on the Christian Easter Sunday? It’s just another day. Prove to me this resurrection thing, there is no proof. There is however proof of humans who are transgendered. That is provable. Resurrection of Jay-sus not so much. All that being said, I don’t begrudge anyones beliefs.
From the Field of Reeds, Hatshepsut looks out from his/her throne within his/her House of Millions of Years and says, "Who in Thoth's name is this 'Jesus' person?"
(Hatshepsut, the "female Pharaoh," was depicted as both male and female and used both pronouns, sometimes in the same inscription.)
