Timeline for Is Rastafari on topic?
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| Oct 9, 2019 at 22:22 | comment | added | Sola Gratia | The only reason Christians began to be called Catholics and the religion Catholic was because, katholikos being the Greek for 'universal,' (think of the 'Catholic' Epistles, written to no particular church, but to the whole church) it came to be necessary to distinguish the Church universal with its faith universal, from local sects and new churches started by men, with no actual link to the apostles or Jesus. Which was for many centuries considered the true mark of orthodoxy. It's not a replacement of the identity of Christian, but a claim to be the only truly Christian one. | |
| Sep 12, 2019 at 0:54 | comment | added | user3961 | @Morgan I think the strictest Catholics recognize all other Christians as apostates, since they reject the papacy and holy tradition. Then they're left with all these apostates calling themselves Christian. I'd think it's become a name they'd rather not use, though it's technically correct. The official name is The Catholic Church, hence "Catholics". | |
| Sep 12, 2019 at 0:31 | comment | added | Morgan Hart - LoveGod.Blog | @fredsbend I can speak to this from having attended a Catholic school in Alabama, then travelled to and lived in several areas where Catholicism was the dominant belief. I feel linguistically that Catholicism would be a denomination of Christianity. However, colloquially, in Alabama, Catholics I met referred to themselves as a denomination, but in Italy, Quebec, and Louisiana, Catholics I met have referred to “the Catholic religion”. I don’t know if this comes from any real teaching, it’s just an observed difference. | |
| Aug 3, 2019 at 20:45 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @fredsbend Both, it depends on the context. You might want to recall that the apostles creed is shared by almost all trinitrian traditions, and that creed refers to the one holy catholic church (small)... In casual conversation, Catholic is a Denomination and that makes a lot of sense, since we have so many denominations here in the US and people tend to identify by sub group. Christian is the religion. When I say that I am Texan that that does not mean I am not American, which is what your assertion turns into. The one confirms the other by association. | |
| Aug 3, 2019 at 20:33 | comment | added | user3961 | @KorvinStarmast When asked your religion, you answer "Christian", not "catholic"? My experience has been the latter. | |
| Aug 3, 2019 at 20:28 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @fredsbend Yes we do. We Catholics do indeed refer to ourselves as Christians. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 22:43 | comment | added | user3961 | I don't think getting good questions would be hard. Getting good answers would be the hard part. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 22:43 | comment | added | user3961 | @curious Naturally. Part of the trouble here is that it's a very loose following with no central authority mixed with a social identity. A lot of things to unpack. An interesting thing: two quora answers of five, presumably from rastas, say what I've said here. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 22:37 | comment | added | curiousdannii Mod | Well in any case, to be safe I think questions about Rastas should be limited to those individuals and groups who do themselves self-identify as Christians. If a question doesn't convince me I'll be voting to close. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 22:32 | comment | added | user3961 | @curious Christianity Today notes syncretism. Converts that remain rastas. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 22:11 | comment | added | curiousdannii Mod | @fredsbend They both absolutely do! Do you have quotes that Rastas do as well? Just because Jesus features prominently doesn't matter, or else Muslims would be Christians too. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 22:10 | comment | added | user3961 | @curious Mormons and Catholics don't really call themselves Christian, though they will if asked. I think Rastafari is like that. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 22:08 | comment | added | curiousdannii Mod | Unless they explicitly self-identify as "Christian" they're off-topic. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 21:45 | comment | added | Peter Turner Mod | Given that StackOverflow Corporate is never going to greenlight another religion site with the Area51 rules being what they are, I'd welcome this | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 21:33 | history | answered | user3961 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |