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Why if all Romans are Christians can it equally be said that all Christians are Romans as some tour guides of the Vatican have been heard saying?
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∙ 8y ago
The statement probably refers to Catholics and denotes the view that Catholics are the disciples of the church of Rome and the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). Such statement obviously cannot apply to Orthodox Christians and Protestants.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoNo. The statement that all Christians are Romans is factually false. (The statement that all Romans are Christians is also false since the city of Rome and the Roman Empire have always had religious minorities, but the majority of Rome has been Christian for nearly 1700 years.) Christianity is an evangelizing religion, so there are numerous Christians today who do not have ancestry that traces to the Roman Empire. The tour guides in Rome are likely implying that because Christianity was really developed and expanded to the world through the Roman Empire that all Christians are culturally imbibing Roman culture and are "Romans in spirit", but this is tenuous and, in my view, ridiculous. Christians around the world have seen Christianity through very different lenses and imports in the tradition, so to claim a cultural Roman aspect is to disregard the very internationality of Christianity.
From logic alone, we know that we cannot assume the truth of a statement where if all X are Y, then all Y must be X. There can certainly be Ys that are not X even if all Xs are Ys. (A perfect example, is that all New Yorkers are Americans, but not all Americans are New Yorkers.)
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