What's your religion, Nofap?

I'm not starting a war by saying "I respectfully disagree." I'm not interested in an argument on the subject, but I'm also not gonna lie about what I believe. I'm just stating an opinion in a respectful, non confrontational manner, so chill.

 

We've avoided one religious war but now you want to start another one by taking a joke literally?

On a more serious note, despite the assurance your original comment can hardly be considered non confrontational. Accusing a different Christian church of not being Christian is an obvious provocation. Assuming that's what you meant as you posted a simple sentence without any meat on it.

 

What are you talking about? You are the one who made this poll and distinguished between Catholocism and Protestantism, so clearly you see them as different as well.

Idk why you're trying to make this into some drama. Sorry if you don't like my opinion, but Catholics and Protestants believe a lot of very different things and there are extremely important distinctions between the two. That's not an insult and I didn't say it to be provocative. It's just what I know to be true from learning about the different religions. Would it be insulting if I said that Muslims and Protestants are different? No... so I don't see why it's so insulting to say that Protestants and Catholics are different. Especially when you made them separate categories in your own poll.

 

@Castielle the catholic, protestant and orthodox churches are all one religion last time I checked. They're different forms of christianity, yes, but all consider themselves and each other christian except when they want to start shit. The same goes with sunnis and shias - two different forms of the same muslim religion. Capisci?

@zeekland wow, you too? I didn't expect that an instruction manual would be needed for the poll.

Mormons, Jehova's witnesses and others who don't fit either of the three big groups were left out for a lack of space.

 

Thanks for the high effort writeup which I'm sure will have value to someone reading this but I'm afraid it has nothing to do with my stance. I'm not interested nor able to debate theology, I'm simply interested in stats. Christianity is traditionally considered to be a religion, the creeds of the three main branches proclaim themselves to be a part of it, and the respective religious leaders generally respect and acknowledge the membership of the other churches in global Christendom. Therefore they're all considered Christian by census takers.

 

Again, I respectfully disagree. Sorry that offends you so much, but it is what it is.

Thank you.

As I've already stated, I'm not interested in getting into a debate. I said what I wanted to say. There is no winning with certain people. If I say I don't want to debate, people get mad. If I do debate, people get mad. I'm sick of the drama. I'm not interested in a debate, nor did I think my simple "thanks for separating Catholics and Protestants" statement would spark such drama.

I find it funny that certain people here act like I'm the one starting drama, when all I said was a pretty harmless statement of opinion. I'm not the one trying to turn it into an argument, like other people seem to want to do. If yall want to argue about it, go for it. Im not interested.

 

That's the issue here. You're equating me saying that Catholics and Protestants are not the same religion as me "disrespecting" them. It wasn't meant that way at all. I know plenty of Catholic people, and I'm sure a lot of them have very similar beliefs to me, and even if they don't, they obviously deserve respect and love just like any other person of any religion. I wasnt trying to say some disrespectful, inflammatory statement made to "start shit" as you claim. You're putting tons of assumptions onto my intentions here, and I don't really appreciate it. I'm not trying to disrespect anyone or start any wars or make anyone feel bad. I'm sorry if my statement did that in any way, but it wasn't my intention at all. Everyone have a great day.

 

I know you won't get offended. You're a very reasonable person. But other people have clearly already gotten offended just by me saying one tiny little thing, so I'm not interested in discussing it.

Also, I'm really busy at the moment, and I honestly don't have the time to put enough thought and effort into my response as I think I would need to in order to be clear and not say something that isn't true or accurate just out of a lack of time to fully research. I've learned a lot, but I can't recall all of it off the top of my head without doing research, which I don't have time for.

 

If you're not Catholic, you're probably Protestant, which is on the list. If you're a Christian, I mean.

 

I do want to clarify that yes, Catholicism and Protestantism are two different sects of Christianity, technically. But I would still say they are different religions, because there are too many differences -- and pretty important ones -- to put them in the same group, in my opinion. Just wanted to clear that up so people don't misunderstand what I'm saying.