Talk:Americanism (heresy)
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The Catholic Church was NOT divided along ethnic lines. In fact, that was a major complaint of Germans- the Irish dominated them. See "The Catholic Experience" by Andrew Greeley.
This article seems to contradict itself in saying that Catholicism was the majority, then that there was a Protestant majority.
No, I think what the writer means is that Catholicism was the largest single denomination at that time, but that the (combined) protestant churches made up a religious majority of US citizens.
For your information, there were more Protestants than Catholics at the time mentioned, but there were more Catholics than any single Protestant sect (such as Lutherans, Methodists, etc.)
♣ seems like a decent article. quickest and easiest way to un-bias it is to not say "it is a heresy" but "it is declared a heresy by the Catholi church" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.89.111.144 (talk) 00:14, August 28, 2007 (UTC)
As any credible historian would state, this article is clearly Modernist and anti-Catholic. Please revise or remove it. 141.161.59.60 01:55, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Interestingly, this article has no verifiable sources and makes pretty strong claims. I tend to agree with the above commenter that it needs a thorough revision. Any 'credible historian' up to it? I'll have to do some research before I can help on it, though. --Miguel1626 02:00, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
The article should clarify that the Magesterium’s condemnation of “Americanism” is now obsolete: the principal of freedom of religion as a natural human right was adopted into Catholic dogma by the Second Vatican Council in its declaration Dignitatis Humanae, in 1965. The thought of John Courtney Murray SJ, an American theologian and historian, was instrumental to this change of tack. -a theologian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.37.7 (talk) 18:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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This concerns POV tag cleanup. Whenever an POV tag is placed, it is necessary to also post a message in the discussion section stating clearly why it is thought the article does not comply with POV guidelines, and suggestions for how to improve it. This permits discussion and consensus among editors. From WP tag policy: Drive-by tagging is strongly discouraged. The editor who adds the tag must address the issues on the talk page, pointing to specific issues that are actionable within the content policies, namely Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Simply being of the opinion that a page is not neutral is not sufficient to justify the addition of the tag. Tags should be added as a last resort. Better yet, edit the topic yourself with the improvements. This statement is not a judgement of content, it is only a cleanup of frivolously and/or arbitrarily placed tags. No discussion, no tag.Jjdon (talk) 19:52, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
