I may have a simple American education… But I’m pretty sure the Vatican is in Europe.
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SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
American Christianity is so weird.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not sure what point you’re trying to make. The seat of Catholicism in Europe and American fundamentalists have very few things in common. Even American Catholics have very little crossover with their evangelical counterparts.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Most evangelicals think Catholics are devil worshippers, just like Muslims.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The point I’m trying to make is Christianity across the globe is an absurd denial of facts and the observable world. There isn’t really anything more dramatic about American Christians vs Christians in Europe or anywhere else for that matter.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
As an American raised in a religious household who’s extremely familiar with European culture, people, and living; you are unfortunately wrong.
American Christianity is its own brand, and Europe has absolutely nothing like it. Nothing. Not at the scale of US religion absurdity.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The Vatican library has books on how electricity works.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They also have a ton of books saying that the universe was created in 7 days, and that when you take communion, wine and bread are literally transformed into blood and flesh of a zombie diety.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 2 months ago
They also have a ton of books saying that the universe was created in 7 days
That’s just not really true, for Catholics. Not for a few centuries at least.
r4venw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Not to be that guy but the vatican is important to catholics; not christians as a whole.
In my experience american christianity is a whole other ball game
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah I went to Catholic high school in the US. Received an excellent education, which was much better than what the public schools offered. It made college very easy for me, while I watched public school graduates struggle with basic general education concepts.
“Christians” is a broad term, which includes non-Catholics. And within that group there is another huge spectrum where many fall on the crazier side.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll lob the ball back over the fence here. Old textbooks with outdated views of a niche sect of Christian beliefs are probably less important to most Christians than the Vatican is, even to non-Catholic Christians.
TheRealKuni@midwest.social 2 months ago
Eh. Probably not. Protestants don’t really give a rat’s ass what the Vatican thinks, and the official position of the Roman Catholic Church on creation is “Theistic Evolution,” whereas these nonsense Protestant textbooks teach that evolution isn’t real.
Source: grew up in almost as close to Catholic as a Protestant church can get, but was still taught that the office of the papacy is “a form of Antichrist.”
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
hexagon@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I went to Italian catholic school from kindergarten to high school and studied dinosaurs and shit, nobody gets to american level of nonsense
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My American catholic school taught us that creationism is against catholic doctrine. They also taught the controversy.
My friends who went to public school got less instruction on evolution and their science teachers were obviously creationist while mine barely hid that she thought it was moronic
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, catholic school are generally better about teaching science than other denominations; especially the evangelicals.
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
All of my friends who went to catholic school had the opposite experience. Evolution was handwaved away as complete nonsense, and God’s benevolence was the answer for why people exist. My public school taught evolution very thoroughly, though none of my science teachers seemed creationist.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Strange. We had just enough Jesuit influence to tell us that God was why, but what and how is best understood through science. Non overlapping magesteria and whatnot.
Now thats not to say they didnt spew some shit. Hell we once got pulled out of class to look at magic bones (internet atheist Latin teacher didn’t like that lol), and our Christian lifestyles class was mostly bigotry and marriage advice, but science class was for understanding the world and the scientific method.
M137@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mostly because American school is about brainwashing, which isn’t the case for the vast majority of everywhere else.