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Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion.
  • Evangelicals are an almost entirely US phenomenon. In the rest of the world, Protestant countries like Germany and the UK are more liberal than Catholic countries like Ireland and Italy. For example, Italy “legalised” abortion in 1978 but the vast majority of gynaecologists refuse to perform them on religious grounds. Ireland didn’t legalise until… 2019!

  • Opinion | How Ireland Fell Out of Love With Joe Biden - The New York Times
  • Yes. Saying “at least half of Ireland” made it sound like you thought Ireland was divided in its religious affiliations. It would make sense if you were talking about Northern Ireland, which has faced more than a century of bitter sectarian division, but Ireland is solidly Catholic.

  • Tens of thousands of pregnancies from rape occurring in abortion-ban states
  • To further clarify: These figures are entirely based on estimates. They’re not “more visible” because of the abortion bans (the statistics used to make the estimates are based on pre-ban crime figures and an assumption about the percentage of rapes that result in pregnancy).

    I’m not saying this to criticise the study, but it’s important to understand what the numbers represent.

  • Why do comments differ across instances?

    If I visit a community from Feddit and then another instance, the comments often differ. I understand there are some issues with defederation between some instances, but this doesn't seem related to that.

    For example, here's the post-race discussion on the Formula 1 community on Feddit: https://feddit.uk/post/320484

    And then the same discussion on lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/950479

    I don't understand why a significant number of comments aren't visible on Feddit.

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