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by Anonymous on July 30th, 2007

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What is the difference between being Catholic and Christian? Can you be both?

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  • by MvL on July 30th, 2007

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    As someone else already answered, Catholicism is a subset of Christianity - one denomination out of many.

    However, many people (especially non-Catholic Christians) often use Christian to mean a non-Catholic Christian, and perceive Catholics as not following the "true path", or being misguided by a corrupt Church, or often being too laid back about adherence to scriptures and instead focusing on rituals and "idol worship" (saints and statues). Most Christians won't have crucifixes or representations of the cross with Jesus the man on them, as it smacks of idol worship to them - Catholics depict the actual body of Jesus typically.

    It's really nitpicking - bitterness on both sides, but mostly the non-Catholics, from the Reformation.

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