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Nice point about papal infallibility - BUT....
Are not most of the US Conservative/Christian/Right not from non-conformist/protestant churches? (By which I mean Lutherans, Anglicans, Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, etc).
Surely the very defining principle of all churches except Catholics (and maybe Gnostics and Eastern Orthodox churches that hark back to a pre-Roman form of Christianity) is that it is based on the principle that a man CAN decide to "change" their religion?
What I feel, based on seeing the issue from across the Atlantic is that what you have in the US is the rise not especially of "Religion", but "Religiosity".
What I find interesting is that in the world I grew up in, Christians were equated with socialists.
Think about it - sharing property, supporting the poor and the weak, non-violence, the brotherhood of man.
Odd really.
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