'@TheChief'
Not so much the faith, as the demographic. Catholicism really comes down from the family, like most religions its really culturally rooted. Most Protestant and Sunni sects are significantly less like this, especially the younger and more recruiting obsessed forms.
So yeah, there's certain things outside even of the religion that sound "Catholic" or not to me.
"It doesn't mean people can't advocate politics based on religious beliefs. "
I'm not talking about your comments here, but comments you've made elsewhere on the site.
"It doesn't mean people can't advocate politics based on religious beliefs. "
Also this isn't quite right. Religion can be your inspiration, but when it comes down to things like government court cases and things like that? Your arguments can't come down to religious beleif as the justification against something, unless its defense of your own habits (and even that is quite conditional).
One of the reasons the people arguing against gay marriage in federal courts were doomed was because they had to dance around religious justifications against gay marriage and try to make an actual argument without it. This proved quite hard.
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'@TheChief'
Not so much the faith, as the demographic. Catholicism really comes down from the family, like most religions its really culturally rooted. Most Protestant and Sunni sects are significantly less like this, especially the younger and more recruiting obsessed forms.
So yeah, there's certain things outside even of the religion that sound "Catholic" or not to me.
"It doesn't mean people can't advocate politics based on religious beliefs. "
I'm not talking about your comments here, but comments you've made elsewhere on the site.
"It doesn't mean people can't advocate politics based on religious beliefs. "
Also this isn't quite right. Religion can be your inspiration, but when it comes down to things like government court cases and things like that? Your arguments can't come down to religious beleif as the justification against something, unless its defense of your own habits (and even that is quite conditional).
One of the reasons the people arguing against gay marriage in federal courts were doomed was because they had to dance around religious justifications against gay marriage and try to make an actual argument without it. This proved quite hard.