Post by Souriquois on Nov 13, 2018 11:12:04 GMT -4
There are black Catholics too.
True. I was surprised to learn there were black Catholics in the US though. I thought most of them were either Baptist or Methodist. Although as far as famous black Catholics go, Catholicism doesn’t have very good representation. Lil Wayne? Seriously? 😂
Mind you, I was surprised to learn Lil Wayne was Catholic (and quite a devout one). But it makes sense, since he is from New Orleans. A lot of black people down there are Creoles, who are Catholic.
And Catholics being considered “other” is a foreign thing to me. I guess it is because most Canadians are Catholic (not a super-majority, mind you, more like slightly over half the population) so it’s seen as mainstream here. Most of our prime ministers have been Catholic.
I know in history, some antipathy towards Canada in the past was due to the fact that the country is predominantly Catholic (scare stories about barbaric nuns in Canada who killed elderly and children were popular in the US in the 19th century), but I don’t think many Americans realize that about the country today. The main scare stories about us today revolve around the fact that we lean a little more to the left up here. What is funny though, whether it is Catholics or leftists, the scare stories about Canada have the same themes... “death panels” used to be a Catholic thing and now it’s our evil socialized health care marking people for death.
Mind you, some American scare stories about the Canadian Catholic Church are correct. They did tax regular people to death (literally, some people starved, and my great uncle died because he had cerebral palsy and after my great-grandparents paid taxes they could not afford to care for him so, they just mercy killed him, something that was quite traumatic for my grandfather). And today, the government forces me to part with 45% of my paycheque and 50% of my investment income... of course, I don’t mind since I see decently good returns on my tax dollars, but I guess if it was the more Catholic days I might be a little bitter, especially if I saw monseigneurs walking around in luxury while I struggled to make ends meet, as was the case in Canada until the Quiet Revolution.