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SteveG wrote
The vast majority of Christians are either Catholic or Orthodox (though in the U.S. that's often easy to forget), and both of those groups hold to the belief that grace builds upon nature.
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SteveG, nice to see ya. You can make doctrinal claims about Catholicism but I don't think one can assume with accuracy what 'the vast majority' of these people actually believe. In my neighborhood, the Latino-based Catholicism is indistinguishable from voodoo (there are votive candles in the local deli devoted to 'lotteria'). This is true of Catholics thoughout the Carribean, South America, and Africa. What they believe and what you believe are in different universes. You might be able to make broad claims about how animistic beliefs endow nature with the divine, but that is far cry from your esoteric ruminations on grace.
Innit?