Is this some sort of remnant of evangelical puritan protestant ideology?

I don’t understaun this.

If you ask me, it’d make as much sense as Orthodox and Christians… or Shia and Muslim…

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Platypuses and mammals.

    Platypuses are mammals, but they’re weird enough that you can’t usefully generalise from them to anything else, to the point that lumping them in together could be actively misleading.

    Same deal.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Platypuses are mammals, but they’re weird enough that you can’t usefully generalise from them to anything else, to the point that lumping them in together could be actively misleading

      I would argue that they’re “lumpable” with other monotremes :)

    • livus@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      Wait do you randomly drop “and platypuses” when you’re talking about mammals??

    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      Platypuses are mammals, but they’re weird enough

      We probably wouldn’t consider them nearly as weird if they were more numerous than any other mammal species and lived all over the world. So their comparison to catholicism is weird.