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** One of the subplots in King's ''[[Needful Things]]'' involves a conflict between Catholics and Baptists in Castle Rock, Maine that escalates into a murderous riot.
** However, other religious characters in his work (Margaret White from ''[[Carrie]]'', Mother Abagail from ''[[The Stand]]'', Vera Smith from ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', David Carver from ''[[Desperation]]'', Paul Edgecombe from ''[[The Green Mile]]'') are Protestant.
* Averted in Belisarius. Romans are Eastern Orthodox and Axumites are Coptics. Obviously. However this is before the schism between Constantinople and Rome reached it's climax. There are also Monophysites which is an esoteric interpretation of trinitarian speculation of interest only to those who are insiders in the Church already or philosophy geeks who just like that sort of thing. What is more important plotwise is the political tensions that arise from theological differences as the author has little interest in theology for it's own sake and sometimes seems to regard it with distaste.
* Averted in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series. The Grayson state church is very much Protestant.
** They go far enough from mainstream theology over a thousand years they are a kind of [[Recycled in Space|Space Mormons]].
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* ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'': Aeodonism is more or less, the copy of the Roman Catholic Church in Medieval Times.
* [[C. S. Lewis]] recounted that allegories of Christianity, regardless of denomination, tend to be viewed as Catholic. This was, he thought, because Catholicism gives central concepts embodied form, while the Protestants interpreted them more etherally. All, for instance, would agree that Christians were to be set apart from the world, which could allegorically be presented by a wall but is also expressed in the enclosures of monks and nuns.
* [[Technic History]]: A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows has what seems to be an evolution of Eastern Orthodoxy which is fitting as it centers on a planet that is Serbian in culture (it's politics is more British with a limited aristocracy headed by a semi-democratic monarch).
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**** Attend each other's Masses, yes, but not necessarily receive communion. An Orthodox church is not supposed to offer communion to a non-Orthodox Christian nor is an Orthodox believer supposed to receive it from a non-Orthodox minister. (Curiously, traditional Catholicism *does* allow the offering of communion to the Orthodox, though not to Protestants.)
***** Not curious at all. It's a doctrinal distinction. Catholics and Orthodox both believe in transsubstantiation and the Real Presence, Protestants don't.
****Evangelicals don't always ask and in this tropper's Church it is basically assumed that it is better to welcome as many repentant as possible and in the process if you want to take the chance of lying about such a thing publicly it is your soul. That is perhaps connected with not believing in Transubstination. But theoretically Michael Corleone could walk in and take Communion and no one would bother him. Although it would be undignified if he had five hits being carried out while he did this.
* The [[American Courts|United States Supreme Court]] has, for the first time in its history, no Protestant judges. In fact, it has six Catholics and three [[You Have to Have Jews|Jews]] (for context, the Court is now over 33 percent Jewish, while the nation they represent is ''less than'' 3 percent Jewish!). Oddly enough, the nation has had only one Catholic President out of 43. Kennedy's religion was a matter of controversy at the time, as Americans have been traditionally wary of Catholicism's recognition of a European figure as a seat of authority (the Pope).
* Christianity Is Catholic can be justified in works involving demons, as Catholics are one of very few Christian sects that still trains exorcists.
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