[neocon1984]

I grew up in a large city where the population was predominantly Catholic, but lived in a Jewish-Catholic neighborhood. We were Lutherans who had to go to the ‘burbs to find a church.

Many years after I left the city, I realized that my Jewish and Catholic friends chose which tenets of belief to accept and reject, while feeling true to their faith. Since then, it makes no sense to me to develop an opinion on someone based on their religious affiliation.

[muawiyah]

That's about it. Back in college I hung around mostly with a bunch of Catholic guys from The Region and Naptown. We didn't have any meaningful "points of faith" that were all that different ~ at the same time I knew a number of Orthodox Christians and I really can't recall a single one of them ever having been around at the same time as the Church of Rome folks.

I chalked that up to the differences of social class, recency of immigration (some of the RCs had family ties going back to the first half dozen boats), and family occupation.

My best buddies in my permanent duty station in the Army were mostly Sicilian ~ probably because I grew up around some Sicilians and could understand the worst accent in English.

People do select the beliefs of importance to themselves, and Christianity in all its numerous manifestations has plenty of beliefs of importance. As far as the Pratts and my people are concerned, they excommunicated them!