Mentions (26)
"The social ethics in the sub have shifted away from Catholicism and towards Protestantism. Protestantism has been a driving force behind the breakdown of social relations in the Western world and now we're seeing the Protestant ethic rear its ugly head in the sub."
"One of the best things about being raised Catholic was that my family only practiced it ceremoniously. We loved the hymns, the imagery, the traditions, the community, etc, but we were swearing loudmouths who held relatively liberal views because ultimately the aesthetics of the church were what real"
"Just beyond crazy how USA-style evangelicalism is completely replacing the Catholic church in many Latin American countries in like 2-3 decades time, after centuries of Catholic pre-eminence."
"But I had to physically take my headphones off when I heard Dasha follow "nothing could compel me to get married" with "as a catholic, marriage is a SACRAMENT". The verbose Christian LARP makes my blood boil."
"Until about 40 years ago Protestantism was absolutely insignificant but now it represents at least a third of the population and it occupied much of the vaccum left by the decline of (beautiful, soulful, wholesome) folk Catholicism in the big cities."
"Or the fact that evangelicalism is spreading like wildfire in Latin America, replacing Catholicism as the dogma of the far right."
"Compared to Protestantism or Islam, Catholicism has few hang up about idolatry, which I suspects makes societies less artistically inhibited."
"Paintings from the short time period of conversation in Japan to Catholicism"
"People often talk about Catholicism's role in valorizing female virginity in conditioning the male libido, but I never hear people talk about the other half of that equation. Sure, it obviously raises as a standard for male emulation an ideal of compassion, but getting men to imitate Christ would ha"
"The psychological baggage, jesus christ. Guilt, black and white moral thinking, ever present fear of damnation, etc. A very seething, disdainful, self-recriminatory energy. Plus it's just fuckin' gaudy and so clearly a tool of control."
"Its a reason we see things like Dasha and loads of other "i am cool ppl something something NYC art scene" Folx pivoting hard to Catholicism, talking about who is a "real" catholic, desperately showing proof their family is/was catholic or they were baptized, and taking up catholic discourse that is"
"https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/08/catholicism-is-a-religion-not-a-vibe/"
"thank you for showing me that i want to die more than ever i hope i get banned from this sub for being ugly and pathetic with bad ideas according to pompous young religious men who hate me even tho i am a religious virgin myself...just because i want to reconcile catholicism and marxism"
"Kind of been feeling for a while that Dasha was LARPing her whole catholic thing since she rarely brought up her faith until this spring (love that for her, even if it's just something she got in to because of her zoomer boyfriend), but I couldn't really put my finger on why… but today I realize Das"
"Which is such a revisionist lie, like how the right wing is also leaning into Catholicism. Also we're going to see Hindu nationalism in America the way the right acts as though we historically respected Catholicism."
"Why is Catholicism the new cool trendy religion? Why not something more decentralized and aesthetic like Orthodox Christianity?"
"My take on the minority of sincere converts is very standard - organized religion is bad, the Catholic church has a ton a baggage, etc. I can just about understand being a cradle Catholic and wanting to 'change the church from within', as my mother aspired to, but I still can't make any sense of con"
"Started finding women more attractive and ngl, starting to get interested in catholicism too (but the two things aren't linked... or maybe they are but not directly). A wife and kids is starting to sound good right about now tbh"
"In Agony of the pod Dasha saying Catholicism is the one true denomination gave me aids. No Peter was not Catholic. Yes the early church fathers and the Old Testament would consider Catholics as idolators. Catholics care more what men 100s of years after Christ wrote then the apostles them selves."
"Long story short, this guy attempted to concert me to Catholicism (he's a lector at the local church) and I'm actually considering attending church. Despite being baptized Catholic, I haven't been religious in a long time but I'm at a stage of life where I'm doing a lot of reckoning."
"The takes on Catholicism are killing me. It's either people desperately wanting the Church to be the based purveyor of western culture or people wanting to own them with the Church being a liberal institution."
"All these tradcath "return the middle ages" feudalist loving luddites that still support usury are total posers. Your basically a protestant at that point."
"Which is such a revisionist lie, like how the right wing is also leaning into Catholicism"
"Also we're going to see Hindu nationalism in America the way the right acts as though we historically respected Catholicism"
"the tradcath thing looks bad because its a niche hipster fad at the moment, so dasha jumping on that band wagon rubs people up the wrong way, i get it. but whatever - Catholicism has a long history in Belarus, it's the second largest religion there"
"I've had romantic interests in the past although with no sexual life, my faith (Catholicism) compels from having one"