Hmm. Do 'new atheists' generally think Protestantism is so much better than Catholicism? I'm not sure they do.https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/923144447717789696 …
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The Protestant Myth of Reformation overcoming a corrupt and oppressive Catholic church is usually held by Protestants, I find.
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Certainly, they've been the ones to argue with me when I talk about the ways the emerging Protestantism was more authoritarian & forbidding.
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I agree that the New Atheists are/were liberal in the old sense. Believed in the Enlightenment, scientific revolution & progress. As do I.
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But I don't think they generally buy into the idea that Christianity was morally &factually reformed by the changes wrought by Protestantism
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