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by polka_haunts_us
1060 days ago
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Yeah I can't believe this paragraph: >"For example, if you were told about two conversations – one about guns, taxes and crime and the other about gay marriage, animal rights and abortion – you could guess with confidence which took place among progressives and which took place among conservatives – even without knowing anything about the content of either conversation." Was written by a real human being. Like... I know plenty of church going Catholics who are happy to talk about gay marriage, animal rights, and abortion, and they aren't conversations that anyone is going to call "progressive". |
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I grew up as a Roman Catholic & studied it's history, including the schism from the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church centralized it's authority to the head of the Church of Rome (the Pope) while the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church kept the more decentralized governance structure of synods of churches & the founding theology from the Council of Nicaea commissioned by Emperor Constantine in AD 325.
The Roman Catholic Church is an Imperial Church, founded by the Council of Nicaea during the reign of Constantine that later consolidated influence to a single prominent urban area...Rome. The Roman Catholic Church "innovated" it's theology over ~1700 years while the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church strove to stay true to the original theology.
With that being said, I would consider the Roman Catholic Church to have urban imperial tenancies & was among the major centers of power from it's founding, through the middle ages, to current times.
Also note that "progressive" is a comparative term of progression...meaning it is compared against current norms. As the norms change, the definition of "progressive" changes. A large institution such as the Roman Catholic Church has inertia & will usually not be at the vanguard of the current form "progressive" ideology. There are elements of vanguard progressivism within the Roman Catholic Church, but that is counterbalanced by others in the institution.