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Old 04-20-2012, 05:52 PM   #408
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Originally Posted by Solumina View Post
Not that I want to defend pothead or anything but it wasn't until quite recently, I believe it started some time in the 60's, where Christians began to identify as "Christians", before then they identified by their individual sect. A Baptist would view a Methodist as every bit as much of an "other" as a Jew or Atheist, and it makes sense for them to have done so since, as they have radically different religious dogma.
Not quite, but it was with Vatican II in the 60s where Catholics took up friendly ecumenical relationships. Inclusivism and ecumenical brotherhood have been around for a while before that in Protestant circles. In fact with the Protestant revolution they made the point that God is bigger than the Church and sacraments and can't be limited to one denomination, even if early Protestants didn't get along much they got the ball rolling for inclusivism and pluralism. Vatican II was really the Catholic Church giving up some of its really really conservative anti-modern views and acting more like Protestants.
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