Can I defend other religions if I post in the Other Religions section?

[Peter_Jericho]

Respect is a thing that goes both ways. Some who have already answered on here understand that, but others don’t (who also answered on here).

That’s just what I was thinking, MichaelP. If someone wants me to respect them, then I should have an equal right to expect respect from them.

 

[Peter_Jericho]

catholic03:

My point is that some Protestants refuse to be called Protestants and claim that they’re just ‘Christian’.

I’ll take that name tag. I’m not protesting anything. I’m a non-Catholic Christian and usually just go by Christian.

I don’t have a perfect solution to offer, but I can tell you that catholic03 isn’t the only Catholic to bring up this issue. Indeed, one of the standard complaints heard among Catholics is “Protestants who refuse to be called Protestants”.

 

[Peter_Jericho]

It can also often tend to be interpreted in a way where “You are Catholic? Well, I am Christian.” sort of thing is basically saying Catholics are not Christians… but in the end I know that is not the view of you or most people who use Christian as their religion.

Well said. And I’d like to add that some Protestants understand how that bothers us, but there are many who don’t seem to understand it at all.

 

[MichaelP3]

It’s a battle on this forum and that is obvious. I rather think it is an internal battle. Sometimes you hear it in the name of truth (where the philosophy of truth sounds solid but the location still very scetchy) or the logic or the whatever. Point is that we will see the same arguments over and over. But that is not a bad thing. Hopefully it will make us think “at times” and not that we just go “with it”.

But to the point. Respect still comes from two sides. And depending on where you are, it WILL influence on how you see it. But that still doesn’t make the “other person” any less disrespected just because you think you are speaking “the truth”.

 

[TC3033]

TC3033:

catholic03:

My point is that some Protestants refuse to be called Protestants and claim that they’re just ‘Christian’.

I’ll take that name tag. I’m not protesting anything. I’m a non-Catholic Christian and usually just go by Christian.

I don’t have a perfect solution to offer, but I can tell you that catholic03 isn’t the only Catholic to bring up this issue. Indeed, one of the standard complaints heard among Catholics is “Protestants who refuse to be called Protestants”.

Sorry…not sorry… I’m not PROTESTing anything…

Well said. And I’d like to add that some Protestants understand how that bothers us, but there are many who don’t seem to understand it at all.

And there’s some of us who know what they’re talking about and don’t “knit pick” them and scare said posters away…

 

[OrbisNonSufficit]

“Protestants who refuse to be called Protestants”.

made me giggle a bit

Sorry…not sorry… I’m not PROTESTing anything…

Well first things first, you are kinda protesting against Papal authority… or do you put yourself under Pope? Anyhow, Protestantism is set of denominations not some people who randomly protest lol. It’s just a term containing a word… I already explained analogy with how “Catholic” Christian is NOT universal Christian by definition, because only Church can be universal.

But then again yes, you have right to put anything there… you could put human, you could put theist, you could put abrahamic or anything that says very little about you…in the end it is all your call

 

[OddBird]

Sorry…not sorry… I’m not PROTESTing anything…

I get what you mean, but as Bithynian reminded above in the thread :

At the time of the Reformation, the verb ‘protest’ in English primarily meant ‘to affirm, to witness, to testify’ rather than ‘to dissent’ (as we would now consider it). This was also the case for German and other languages which derived cognate words from the Latin protestari (in itself analogous in meaning to the Greek μάρτυρος marturos whence comes the English ‘martyr’).

In the context of the Reformation, Protestant did not primarily mean ‘a person who dissents from the Catholic Church’. Instead it referred to those who affirmed various Reformation doctrines and confessions. More narrowly, it applied to those Germans who affirmed the First Diet of Speyers and rejected the Second.

 

[Peter_Jericho]

At the time of the Reformation, the verb ‘protest’ in English primarily meant ‘to affirm, to witness, to testify’ rather than ‘to dissent’ (as we would now consider it). This was also the case for German and other languages which derived cognate words from the Latin protestari (in itself analogous in meaning to the Greek μάρτυρος marturos whence comes the English ‘martyr’).

In the context of the Reformation, Protestant did not primarily mean ‘a person who dissents from the Catholic Church’. Instead it referred to those who affirmed various Reformation doctrines and confessions. More narrowly, it applied to those Germans who affirmed the First Diet of Speyers and rejected the Second.

The Continuum: Pro and Con testantism