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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound Episcopalian.

Kinda non sexist Catholic-lite.

fwiw - God and Jesus aren't sexist.  Those teaching came about as a sign of the times.  I sometimes wonder how they consider the Pope only being male and only being white in all the years since Jesus (except 3).  This can't possibly be regarded well that PEOPLE still believe God only wants to speak through white males.  Oh well, human nature sucks.[/quote]

Consider that for centuries, the Catholic Church was only in Europe and is still patriarchal.  That explains all the white guys.[/quote]

And for centuries it hasn't been, yet nothing has changed.  Catholicism started to spread in the 1400s, so 700-800 years and . . . Nothing changed.[/quote]

It started to spread, yes, but until the 20 century, there were no Cardinals outside of Europe.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-how-the-conclave-of-cardinals-will-chose-next-pope/#:~:text=For%20many%20centuries%2C%20the%20College,in%20the%201903%20papal%20election.

"For many centuries, the College of Cardinals was dominated by Europeans; Italians, in particular. In fact, the first time a non-European cardinal actually cast a ballot in a conclave was only in the 20th century, when Baltimore’s archbishop, James Gibbons, voted in the 1903 papal election. Now, the College of Cardinals has members from over 90 countries, with Francis having appointed nearly 80 percent of them. "

I am not defending the Catholic Church.  Just explaining, accurately

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You guys are conveniently forgetting the Eastern, browner half of the church. OP should consider Orthodoxy. All this nonsense about European Cardinals, conclaves, etc. has nothing to do with them. Until 1054 there were five patriarchates in the Christian church: Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Rome. As you can see, only one of those is in Europe. The other four were retained by the Eastern church following the schism in 1054.[/quote]

1054!   That's a thousand years of the Roman Catholic Church alone. (And it was all Roman Catholic, not simply "Christian" as stated above. And although the people may be browner, they are still caucasians - like Italians.  Protestantism didn't come in until much later, in 16th century Europe.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Protestantism  [/quote]

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