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Catholicism and Judaism really has it down.
Um, Catholicism also has a lot of ritual and ceremony.
Charles II was Protestant, but his brother, James II, had converted to Catholicism during
Charles II was Protestant, but his brother, James II, had converted to Catholicism during
And by the way, no, you can't cleverly get around this rule by converting from Catholicism to something else and then to Church of England.
In the eyes of the crown, Catholicism is transitive.
Catholicism.
In Catholicism, the ultimate end of human existence consists in felicity, Latin equivalent to the Greek eudaimonia, or blessed happiness, described by the 13th-century philosopher-theologian Thomas Aquinas as a beatific vision of God's essence in the next life.
Nietzsche was a devastating critic of, I would say, dogmatic Christianity, Christianity as it was instantiated in institutions, I suppose, although he's a very paradoxical thinker because, for example, one of the things Nietzsche said was that he didn't believe that the scientific revolution would have ever got off the ground if it hadn't been for Christianity and more specifically for Catholicism because he believed that over the course of really a thousand years, the European mind, so to speak, had to train itself to interpret everything that was known within a single coherent framework, coherent if you accept the initial axioms, a single coherent framework.
And more specifically, for Catholicism because he believed that over the course of, really, a thousand years,
When the Netherlands won its independence from Catholic Spain back in the 1500s, the Dutch government outlawed Catholicism.
the Dutch government outlawed Catholicism.
the peace and the love, and I was deep into Catholicism as a child as well. And so I just
And I was deep into Catholicism as a child as well.
Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, makes the momentous point that one can serve God through work of many different kinds and not just, as had previously been argued by Catholicism, simply by entering the priesthood.
and not just what had previously been occupied by Catholicism,
The history of religions according to Fomenko looks as follows: the pre-Christian period (before the 11th century and Jesus Christ ), Bacchic Christianity (11th to 12th century, before and after Jesus Christ), Jesus Christ Christianity (12th to 14th century) and its subsequent mutations (15th to 17th) into Orthodox Christianity, the Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, and so on..
the Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, and
Catholicism sucks.
Catholicism sucks.