• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    131·
    15 days ago

    Eh, I think protestantism and catholicism are actually pretty different. Even the local catholic churches can differ quite a lot between countries - e.g. Germany’s catholic churches are generally a lot more progressive than those in Africa. And European lutheranism might as well be on a different planet compared to US evangelicalism.

    • Brokkr@lemmy.world
      21·
      14 days ago

      And to many people the differences between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are negligible.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        9·
        14 days ago

        Sure, it’s a matter of what particular aspects of religion you care about, and Judaism and Islam aren’t monoliths, either.

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        25·
        14 days ago

        Then they don’t understand them at all.

        There are very foundational differences between them.

        I say this as an irreligjous person who’s studied world religions.

        They only appear similar when viewed through a very low resolution/highly abstracted perspective.

        • thallamabond@lemmy.world
          5·
          14 days ago

          As far as I’m concerned, Religions are categorized first by who their god is so I’d lump these and more together.

          Abrahamic Religions: The most prominent Abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[3] They—alongside Samaritanism,[4] the Druze faith,[5] the Baháʼí Faith,[3] and the Rastafari movement[3]—all share a common belief in the God of Abraham. Likewise, the Abrahamic religions share similar features distinguishing them from other categories of religions:[6]

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Abrahamic_religions