Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha...
by mensetmanusman on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:40AM
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https://www.catholic.com/tract/primer-on-indulgences
The powerful hoping to keep people ignorant seems like conspiracy/folklore.
Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha...
by pbhjpbhj on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:16PM
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Protest-ant publication of non-Latin Bible seems to disagree?
Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha...
by gattilorenz on Sunday June 13, 2021 @07:58AM
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> Catholicism has a lot of things that are contradictory to biblical Christianity
That's only true if you consider the Bible as the only source of revelation, which is not the case for Catholics, where Tradition is equally important.
Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha...
by pbhjpbhj on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:26PM
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Not only is it true for sola scriptura but also under prima scriptura (followed by Anglicans and Methodists amongst others) -- so under an "Anglican triad" this position is still valid.
Catholicism still has things that are contradictory to biblical Christianity, such as priesthood of all believers, even if you accept other sources of revelation those sources would still be contradictory.
It's somewhat orthogonal to your argument, but I'd doubt that most people in "Christian countries" (which is a heterodox notion) are/were Christians. Mostly people in the past seem to have followed a societal model, largely imposed as a firm of control.
Where I grew up in the UK the village vicar was not a Christian according to most definitions (they didn't believe in central tenets of the faith as espoused in all the main creeds).
Catholicism has a lot of things that are contradictory to biblical Christianity from basic things like having "special" people, to indulgences which are so contradictory to biblical teachings the only possibly way they were accepted is because most people were ignorant to Scripture. And of course those in power keenly maintained that ignorance.