On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:05:57 -0500, JohnH
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:27:29 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:38:14 -0500, Dave Hall wrote:


This country was founded by and became the predominate home to Christian
following people. That's a matter of fact, not a statement of religious
intent. Sort of like saying that this is a English speaking country. The
predominate language is English. You can speak something else, but it's
not our problem if you can't follow the majority.

I don't buy it. You lump all Christians together like they are
homogenous, but that is not the case. While 52% of this country is
Protestant, they are not all the same religion. Roman Catholics are
another 24%, but according to this site, they are clearly not Christian.

http://www.born-again-christian.info/catholics.htm

Personally, I would think Catholics are Christian, but use the site to
show there isn't an easy way to lump religions together.

I've never known a Catholic who considered himself a "born-again"
Christian. When I was a kid, I was taught that Christians encompassed
two main groups - Catholics and Protestants. Protestants were
Christians who had 'protested' against one or more teachings of the
Catholic Church and broken away to form their own.

That's pretty much the way I was taught as well.


As your site shows, some broke further away than others. Lutherans, as
an example, hold many of the same beliefs as Catholics, and their
services are much the same.

Episcopalians are even closer to Catholics. I jokingly refer to them
as "Catholic lite"......


Dave