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Religious linkage is troubling
Why are the pious often destructive?
BY MEL WEST
Sunday, July 19, 2009
I write about a question that has troubled me for years and for which I have found no satisfactory answer. The question is this: Why is it that the more “Christian” people are, (in the ways we usually measure religiosity), the more destructive they are to their community and themselves?
For more than 30 years, I worked for the Church, gathering social data from across the land that was hopefully useful in planning its outreach mission. I and others gathered data concerning the percentage of people who say they believe in God, attend church, read the Bible and other such factors. We found that varied rather widely across the United States. Let me call such data Indicators of Religiosity, or IoR.
Im sorry but the reason is that Christianity is one or the biggest religion here in my area next to Catholic.
Originally posted by Wookiep
reply to post by Geolion1
Please don't take "religion" and apply it to only Christianity. Not to further plug my thread but I find it interesting all these "religious" threads all of a sudden.
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Im sorry but the reason is that Christianity is one or the biggest religion here in my area next to Catholic.
Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek adjective καθολικός (katholikos), meaning "universal".[1] In the context of Christian ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages. For some, the term "Catholic Church" refers to the Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, including both the Western particular Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. Protestants sometimes use the term "catholic church" to refer to the entire body of believers in Jesus Christ across the world, and across the ages. Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, and some Methodist Christians hold that their churches are catholic in the sense that they are in continuity with the original catholic (universal) church founded by the apostles.
In "Catholic Christendom" (including the Anglican Communion), bishops are considered the highest order of ministers within the Christian Church, as shepherds of unity in communion with the whole church and one another.[2] Catholicity is considered one of Four Marks of the Church, the others being unity, sanctity, and apostolicity.[3] according to the Nicene Creed of 381: "I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church."