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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm always surprised by people who jump between faiths.  Do you just decide that you don't believe something anymore and pick a new religion that aligns with that?  People just seem more cavelier than that - "Oh I was raised Methodist but now I go to my wife's Lutheran church."  Well aren't they fundamentally different in enough ways that you can't interchange them?[/quote]

I don't know about that. For example, I know many active Catholics very well and not a single one professes to believe in transubstantiation or agrees with the church's teachings on homosexuality, the role of women in the church, sex before marriage or birth control. It's not surprising that they'd jump ship to another church with slightly less objectionable positions on these issues.

Are there educated adults who still believe these things are true and correct? I think educated Catholics put up with these teachings of the church for the comfort of familiarity. [/quote]

To answer the OP, I have not encountered this to be true. I went to Catholic school 6-12 in the 90s/00s and was taught in depth about Anglicanism, Martin Luther and the 95 theses and calvinism and puritanism and all those early schisms. We did not get in depth on baptism/evangelicals/episcopalians but that is because at some point all of those are just like different flavors of jolly rancher and christian is christian. I have met very few people identify as 'baptist' or 'methodist.' I know a lot of people that identify as 'christian' and a lot of people that identify as 'catholic.'

To tie that into what I was thinking about the PP I'm responding to. I think its funny because in Catholicism there is a strange dichotomy in that I feel like they are more attached to canon and the specific teachings of the church than other religions which take a more 'personal relationship with god approach' but at the same time we are LESS attached to specific teachings. I never really felt pressure to proselytize to sinners or to impose my beliefs on anyone. My priests and teachers were always willing to talk about homosexuality and women in the church and birth control etc and no one was a real hard ass for any of those things. As long as you believed in the general vibe and progressed through the sacraments you were essentially good. There is a lot of encouragement about questioning the church and teachings and talking through it. The only thing they are SUPER firm on is abortion IMO. Anyway, I wouldn't jump ship to another version of christianity because they seem to take everything even MORE seriously. IE, the actual rules in Catholocism may seem more strict, but the enforcement seems way less strict. I was always told that basically you should be a good person, treat the needy with kindness, do good works, believe in god and not get an abortion.

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