“In Protestant countries. In Japan, it is probably known as Shintoist work ethics. The Soviet Union had this distinction: Hero of Socialist Labor, and it was given to people who indeed worked very hard. But what does it have to do with Catholicism’s fundemental conservatism and Protestantism’s definitional liberalism?”
I was illustrating absurd, stupid, tribalist, religious sweeping statements. Nice of you to chime in with your contribution.
It is a sweeping statement indeed, this is why no one should act offended. There are conservative Protestants and there are liberal Catholics. The question is, which religion is fundamentally liberal and which is fundamentally conservative, and, as I explained in #35 and prior couple of posts, Catholicism is conservative because it refers to the immutable 2,000 years old authority of the Church, and Protestantism is liberal because it starts with a literal premise of individual interrpetation of the Scripture. We conserve, you scatter.