• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah you can do whatever you want and be a protestant as protestantism is defined by it's relation to Catholisism not by any specific set of beliefs.

    There may be cultural reasons they still associate themselves with Catholisism in America for example Protestantism is culturally associated with whiteness and the bourgeoise while Catholism with poor brown skinned immigrants (as opposed to wealthy white protestant immigrants). So both anti-Catholisism and teetotalerism have a history of being associated with or dogwhistles for anti-immigrant politics.

    this gives an example of how religious identities are often not actually based on religious differences so much as cultural and explains why they may have cultural reasons to still define themselves as Catholic. (this is for the original and real life batshit religious movement from the early 60's the tradCath teenagers are LARPing as).

    the weird nerds LARPing as a weird religious offshoot of Catholism are just stupid teenagers as far as I could tell and probably don't even know what eucharist is let alone have extemely strong opinions about it