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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Personally, I'm an atheist (anti-theist to be more precise), but I'll say that in my experience catholic christians tend to be less culty than protestant christians. Probably has something to do with the part that catholics believe that they actually have to be good vs protestants believing that simply believing is all you need.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

catholics believe that they actually have to be good vs protestants believing that simply believing is all you need

Wtf ?

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

A doctrine of Catholicism is that you need good works as well as faith in order to get into Heaven. When Martin Luther broke away and started the Protestant movement, one of the big changes he made was to drop the "good works" part so that faith alone is sufficient to get into Heaven. (As I understand it, the argument behind this is that Jesus saves us from all of our sins already so therefore it does not matter how good or bad we are during our lives as long as we have faith.)

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