...in the financial sense, they wouldn't have so many bankrupt dioceses.

Many lawsuits filed for sexual abuse by clerics have the church running scared. When plaintiffs started winning big judgements, many dioceses 'gave' assets to church related groups so they could show empty pockets and avoid big settlements. IOW, they knew they had abusive cleric and they want to duck responsibility. So, yeah, worried about their bottom line and resorting to chicanery to protect same.

And for that, may he rot in a hell of his own making.

Meanwhile ignoring all the politics in evangelical churches

If so, what are they?

Who were not only silent throughout the 2024 election, but some of them even yukked it up with the main perpetrator at the Al Smith dinner. I'm so happy I left that shithole organization decades ago.

Evangelical Christians, and Christian Nationalists like Russell Vought, the current Trump pick for Office of Management and Budget Director.

Vought is an Evangelical Christian and a self- described "Christian Nationalist".

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63530845/congress-confirmation-hearing-russell-vought-project-2025/

Baptized at 4 weeks old for the sole purpose of grooming to being a source of money until the day I die. Thanks to my parents and grandparents. It took awhile but I broke the spell. I have no use for organized religion.

Because Catholics are the wrong kind of Christians?

Christians
A lot of them believe only their “Christian following” is the correct one
Example Catholics will put down Unitarian
And vise versa

Say they don’t worship the correct way

I hear it all the time and it doesn’t seem to matter which religion is talking they are saying the other religion is wrong

Not just Christians.

It is also true in other religions.
Shia/Sunni
Orthodox/Reform Judaism
Tibetan/Zen Buddhism

Not just religions.

My political party/your political party
My kind of Democrat/your kind of Democrat

etc.

Don't forget the Ultra-Orthodox, such as the Hasidim.

It's been my experience that the Ultras shun the Orthos.

(I am an atheist, but I get along fine with Orthos.)

Always divisions within divisions if we have humans present.

In some countries they take soccer very seriously and it's sometime violent.

We even do it for fun. Even when it doesn't get violent, it is an enormous business. Us against them, a multi-purpose construct.

yup

As was pointed out earlier, humans are always dividing and subdividing themselves into separate groups, and not just religious ones.

nor are the Evangelicals or Christian Nationalists.

Let's not seek out one religion or religious denomination to lay the blame on, shall we?

I meant to respond to the person who said, "Because Catholics aren't the right kind of Christians?" Unlikely, since Vance himself is Catholic, as he states in the linked article (and elsewhere).

I am certainly laying no blame on any religion or denomination.

And I don't know the relevance to Russell Vought. I'll go back and reread thread.

I appreciate your explanation of the misunderstanding.

Can you tell me?

Here you go..

https://democrats.org/news/project-2025-chief-architect-russ-vought-backs-trumps-plans-to-rip-away-health-care-while-giving-tax-handouts-to-billionaires/

Thank you.

I'd not heard of him either until very recently.

they follow the gospel of Trump, NOT Jesus

Link to tweet

not-so-wisecrack.

Perhaps he's getting ready to re-convert to something more Trump friendly, whatever that could be.

takes one to know one

some have entertained angels without even knowing it ...

Hebrews 13