mardi 10 octobre 2023

2 Doesn't Christianity Crush Diversity?


Index post : Rebecca McLaughlin Wrote a Book

Catholic Christianity most certainly doesn't.

Calvinism isn't Christianity anyway.

In Catholicism, you are free to marry or not. You are only obliged to stick to choices you have hallowed with a promise. Note, marrying without a marriage promise is not possible.

Homosexual acts are forbidden, not from a will to make all men extreme machos (btw, we make no exceptions in favour of ultra-macho homos), nor from a will to make all women extremely feminine (a lolita dyke doesn't get a free pass for being kawaii). Homosexual acts are forbidden, like all other contraceptive behaviour (i e simultaneous choice of physical infertility and sex), because they mean fewer babies.

Part of the problem with fewer babies is an aging society, but another part is less diversity.

Latin America has been far better in preserving a diversity both culturally and ethnically between descendants of Spaniards and indigenous peoples, than the former English colonies in US or Canada have been.

Algonquian languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_languages
 
Cree language Native speakers 96,000, 27% of ethnic population (2016 census)
Ojibwe language Native speakers (50,000 cited 1990–2016 censuses)
Mi'kmaq language Native speakers 7,140, 4% of ethnic population (2016 census)
Blackfoot language Native speakers 2,900 (2016)
Arapaho language Native speakers 1,100 (2015)
Fox language Native speakers 700: 250 Sauk and Fox and 400 Kickapoo in the US (2007–2015) 60 Kickapoo in Mexico (2020 census)
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language Native speakers 355 in Canada (2016 census) 100 in the United States (2007)
 Cheyenne language Native speakers 380 (2020)
Shawnee language Native speakers 260 and decreasing (2015)
Menominee language Native speakers 35 (2007) + 25 L2 speakers (no date)
Massachusett language evival Revitalization from 1993. As of 2014, 5 children are native speakers, 15 are proficient second-language speakers and 500 are adult second-language learners.
Abenaki language Native speakers 14 Western Abenaki (2007–2012) Last fluent speaker of Eastern Abenaki died in 1993.
Munsee language Native speakers 2 (2018)
 
Some languages of the Latin Americas
 
Quechuan languages Native speakers 7.2 million
Guarani language Native speakers 6.5 million (2020)
Aymara language Native speakers 1.7 million (2007–2014)
 Nahuatl Native speakers 1.7 million in Mexico (2020 census)
Kʼicheʼ language Native speakers 1.1 million (2019 census)
Yaqui language Native speakers 20,000 in Mexico (2020 census) 640 in the USA (2015 census)


And within a single people and a single language, Catholicism keeps diversity of times into the present. Late Antiquity Benedictines and Latin Liturgy. Somewhat earlier liturgy in Byzantine rite. Crusader era Cistercians. Late Crusader era Franciscans and Dominicans. Renaissance Jesuits. All present into the present time, and their clothing provokes some Calvinist scoffers to speak of "cross dressing" not because they acctually dress in female clothes, but because their male garments are not those of the present day.

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