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Re:Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app by TimTheTinker on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:56PM (#27598957)
I don't think you'd actually hear someone saying something like this today, despite the fact that the theological divide between protestant and Roman Catholic remains what it has been.

I'm a non-denominational protestant, but my family is good friends with a Roman Catholic family down the street... we do have so much in common with them, despite our disagreement as to whether justification and righteousness before God is conferred on the basis of faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.

Re:Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app by nyokodo on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:24PM (#27600088)
> despite our disagreement as to whether justification and righteousness before God is conferred on the basis of faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.

There is a strong tendency for Catholics and Protestants, when we all chill out and sit down carefully making distinctions about Justification, to find we agreed all along but had different language to describe the same thing.[1] I suspect it extends to other doctrinal issues and areas of genuine disagreement become much more productive when said attitudes and practices are adopted.

I also strongly suspect that most areas of disagreement between Christians are persistent symptoms of European Renaissance politics with theological rationalization.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Declaration_on_the_Doc...

Re:Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app by x3iv130f on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:18PM (#27597951)
Heresy!

Speaking more seriously, most churches these days are very ecumenical since they have realized they have much more in common with each other than secular culture.

Re:Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app by swiley on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:00PM (#27600305)
"Catholic" in church means something like "Common" in Desktop Environments.
Re:Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app by Breza on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:02PM (#27632475)
"Catholic Lisp"