Message from @rybus
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Germany is more Catholic than protestant now
And many eastern Euro countries who are on paper catholics aren't that religious in practice
There aren't really that mean Eastern Europe Catholic countries
Poland is one
Croatia perhaps?
Also just look at South America
Jesuits.
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Conservative christians are converting from catholicism to protestantism en masse
Many of the countries there will be majority prot at some point
Catholicism just has a lot of inertia
But I don't really see it as a bulwark
You also have a lot of issues with progressive syncretism in South America
It is, it's simply the situation where people reject something for another which is more arbitrary
Personalized and privatized
Which is bad ofc lol
So is their reason for staying catholic
Just calling things arbitrary to avoid looking at something is nonsensical
Not really? Considering the hundreds of years of ecumenical and rational authority that the Church has to offer?
"to avoid looking"
It's "turning away" and "rejecting"
lol
Yeah after looking at it and forming their opinion on it
You can't really blame them considering the state catholicism is in
It's really not that bad? Considering historical issues.
The Arian Crisis was way worse
People are simply more complacent nowadays
They want to take easier routes
Arianism was an external challenge so it's not really comparable
No, it wasn't.
the prot churches here are conservative but still koshered
It was a crisis within the early Church that almost lead to Schism
The issue with catholicism right now is the institution itself being corrupted
Perhaps, but there are always failsafes and plenty of things in the way of preventing things from falling.
There always has been.
The people who turn away for that reason and that reason alone don't know the history of the Church.
And what it's overcome.
Turbulence isn't an "if" it's a "when" and "how bad".
And right now, yes, there is corruption, but it's really nothing that cannot be fixed internally.
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