Comments on: Two Versions of Christianity — Take Your Pick! http://www.bloggernews.net/15342 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Mon, 28 May 2012 00:17:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/15342#comment-5673 Nancy Reyes Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:14:56 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15342#comment-5673 Your problem of "two versions" of christianity is that it assumes American protestant Christianity is the only form. Yet statistically, Catholicism and Orthodoxy are much larger. So if you don't want to chose, you could just become Catholic and combine the two....or three...or four...types of Christians. We have "evangelical" catholics like Scott Hahn and Opus Dei. We have marxist kumbaya Catholics like Cardinal Mahoney We have polka loving Catholics like John Paul II We have Mozart loving Catholics like B16 We have fiesta loving Catholics like here in the Philippines We have Pentecostal Catholics who speak in tongues We have prickley sarcastic funny Catholics like Mother Angelica We have saints like Mother Teresa We have drunks like half the Irish Catholics (the other half are puritans) We even have a lot of agnostics, gays, adulterers, murderers and even (gasp) POLITICIANS who are Catholic... We figure God's mercy covers our sins, and hope a deathbed confession and the Virgin Mary will get us past St. Peter's door. As Flannery O'Connor said: Catholicism means "here comes everyone". Your problem of “two versions” of christianity is that it assumes American protestant Christianity is the only form. Yet statistically, Catholicism and Orthodoxy are much larger.

So if you don’t want to chose, you could just become Catholic and combine the two….or three…or four…types of Christians.

We have “evangelical” catholics like Scott Hahn and Opus Dei.
We have marxist kumbaya Catholics like Cardinal Mahoney
We have polka loving Catholics like John Paul II
We have Mozart loving Catholics like B16
We have fiesta loving Catholics like here in the Philippines
We have Pentecostal Catholics who speak in tongues
We have prickley sarcastic funny Catholics like Mother Angelica
We have saints like Mother Teresa
We have drunks like half the Irish Catholics (the other half are puritans)
We even have a lot of agnostics, gays, adulterers, murderers and even (gasp) POLITICIANS who are Catholic… We figure God’s mercy covers our sins, and hope a deathbed confession and the Virgin Mary will get us past St. Peter’s door.

As Flannery O’Connor said: Catholicism means “here comes everyone”.

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