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RE: Modern Excommunication
And now Catholicism reminds the contemporary world they are no different - except that they don't bomb Mormons or Protestants, etc. At least not frequently enough for it to seem like the status quo.
Don't be so sure of that. Here in the US and in Western Europe that's usually true, but it's not been all that long (a mere ten years) since the Bosnian War. That was a three-sided conflict where the sides were directly associated with religion.
In most of the reporting we heard, it was about the "Croats", and the "Serbs", and the "Muslims", as the three sides. But what specifically distinguished the "Croats" from the "Serbs" was religion. The Croats were Catholic, while the Serbs were Orthodox. The analogous term to "Croat" and "Serb" for the Muslim group is "Bosniak", but it was rarely heard.
Christopher Hitchens wrote that, "a secular Croatian intellectual once gave me a warning that ... took the form of a sour joke. 'If I tell people that I am an atheist and a Croat,' he said, 'people ask me how I can prove I am not a Serb.' To be Croatian, in other words, is to be Roman Catholic. To be a Serb is to be Christian Orthodox."
The basic summary of that war is that the two Christian groups divided the country between them and then sought to commit genocide against the Muslim population.
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